{"id":823,"date":"2008-04-13T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=823"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:23:16","slug":"nonfiction_lets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/nonfiction_lets.html","title":{"rendered":"Nonfiction: &#8220;Let&#8217;s Talk About Love; A Journey to the End of Taste&#8221; by Carl Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the 33 1\/3 series (details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.33third.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/33%E2%85%93\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>There is much more to this book than you might think. Truly a philosophical treatise on not just Celine and her music (and importance or not); but on personal taste, crowd reaction, social commentary&#8230; The level of research was pretty impressive and the combination of sarcasm and thoughtfulness had a nice smooth tone. Doesn&#8217;t make me anymore interested in listening to Dion&#8217;s music, but that&#8217;s not really the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the 33 1\/3 series (details here or here). There is much more to this book than you might think. Truly a philosophical treatise on not just Celine and her music (and importance or not); but on personal taste, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/nonfiction_lets.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-823","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\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}