{"id":1782,"date":"2007-11-16T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-16-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:13:26","slug":"unrequired-reading-nov-16-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-16-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 16, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back from San Diego, dear readers, and ready to do a day or two of work before taking a Thanksgiving break! Have some links, whydon’tcha?<\/p>\n

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David Byrne on Ikea’s naming system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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How to win a National Book Award, in five easy steps<\/a>! I thought this year’s winner might be really funny, but then I discovered that I was misreading the author’s name<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Roger Kimball really doesn’t like Norman Mailer’s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Looking good takes a lot of work. Looking ugly can take even more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Good ruins<\/a> are hard to find.<\/p>\n

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Congress: it’s not bribery if we do it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hip-hop: goodbye to gangsterism<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Condolences to official VM best pal Paul Di Filippo, who lost his father earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m back from San Diego, dear readers, and ready to do a day or two of work before taking a Thanksgiving break! Have some links, whydon’tcha?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-literature","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-sK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}