{"id":717,"date":"2007-12-19T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=717"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:59:06","slug":"fiction_gentlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/fiction_gentlem.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: &#8220;Gentlemen of the Road&#8221; by Michael Chabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/a_la_super_eggp_17.html\">told you last week<\/a> about its exuberant use of adjectives and other writerly choices that lend to its fairy-tale adventure-story feel.<\/p>\n<p>Very entertaining. Somewhat silly but a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;War creates opportunities too.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the short term,&#8221; Joseph said, and spat again. &#8220;Good in the short term is always bad in the long term.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already told you last week about its exuberant use of adjectives and other writerly choices that lend to its fairy-tale adventure-story feel. Very entertaining. Somewhat silly but a lot of fun. &#8220;War creates opportunities too.&#8221; &#8220;In the short term,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/fiction_gentlem.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}