{"id":3371,"date":"2009-02-05T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2009-02-24T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T23:36:06","slug":"0-fer-0kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-0kay","title":{"rendered":"0-fer 0kay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/4401990\/Whisper-it-you-dont-need-to-have-read-John-Updike.html\" target=\"_blank\">Whew!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew!<\/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":[568,4],"tags":[535],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-0-fer","category-literature","tag-john-updike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Sn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3320,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-part-2","url_meta":{"origin":3371,"position":0},"title":"0-fer, part 2","author":"Gil","date":"January 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I never read anything by John Updike \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who died of lung cancer today at 76 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d either. I hear those Rabbit novels are supposed to be good. Any recommendations?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;0-fer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3327,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-part-3","url_meta":{"origin":3371,"position":1},"title":"0-fer, part 3","author":"Gil","date":"January 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've never read anything by John Irving, either. (I could go on with this series forever! Esp. around Nobel time!)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;0-fer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3935,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-20th-century-edition","url_meta":{"origin":3371,"position":2},"title":"0-fer 20th century edition","author":"Gil","date":"June 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Because I'm not some commie pinko, I don't listen to NPR. So I don't know if Dick Meyer has worthwhile literary opinions or not. What I do know is that he posted this list of his top English-language novels written last century. He organized the list in terms of \"how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;0-fer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3613,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-down-by-law-edition","url_meta":{"origin":3371,"position":3},"title":"0-fer Down By Law edition","author":"Gil","date":"March 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's 0-fer is . . . John Mortimer! Christopher Hitchens' obit for Mr. Mortimer was pretty entertaining; any idea if his books are worth checking out? And did everyone but me know that he's Emily Mortimer's dad?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;0-fer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4387,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-man-0-fer-all-seasons","url_meta":{"origin":3371,"position":4},"title":"A Man 0-fer All Seasons","author":"Gil","date":"August 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's literary 0-fer is . . . Robert Bolt! (Technically, he's not an 0-fer, since I have seen two movies for which he wrote the screenplays: Lawrence of Arabia and The Mission. 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