{"id":3613,"date":"2009-03-18T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:50:48","slug":"0-fer-down-by-law-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-down-by-law-edition","title":{"rendered":"0-fer Down By Law edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s 0-fer is . . . John Mortimer<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Christopher Hitchens’ obit for Mr. Mortimer<\/a> was pretty entertaining; any idea if his books are worth checking out? And did everyone but me know that he’s Emily Mortimer’s<\/a> dad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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?<\/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":[604,594],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-0-fer","category-literature","tag-emily-mortimer","tag-john-mortimer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Wh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3895,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cinc0-fer-de-mayo","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":0},"title":"Cinc0-fer de Mayo","author":"Gil","date":"May 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of \"Drink Corona (or whatever Mexican beer you choose) Day,\" I thought I'd go find some well-regarded Mexican authors whom I've never read a word of. 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Or throw me a magazine!\" For reasons I won't bother to mention, a shelf in our downstairs bathroom contains a number of essay\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312361750","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4136,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-of-the-week-grass-unfed-edition","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":3},"title":"0-fer of the week: Grass-unfed edition","author":"Gil","date":"July 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In keeping with last week's 0-fer of Ezra Pound (and as inspired tangentially by this Bourgeois Surrender post), I offer up my latest literary 0-fer: Gunter Grass! Now I really have to get back to work.","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3371,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-0kay","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":4},"title":"0-fer 0kay!","author":"Gil","date":"February 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Whew!","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3803,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-unlike-father-like-son","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":5},"title":"0-fer: Unlike Father, Like Son","author":"Gil","date":"April 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've read several books (and one really bad article) by his son before, but this week's literary 0-fer is . . . Kingsley Amis, CBE! I plan on correcting that 0-fer later this year when I delve into his Everyday Drinking collection. As soon as I stop drinking every day,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1596915285","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","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=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}