{"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":"<p>This week&#8217;s 0-fer is . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Mortimer\" target=\"_blank\">John Mortimer<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Hitchens&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2009\/04\/hitchens200904\" target=\"_blank\">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&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0607865\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Mortimer&#8217;s<\/a> dad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s 0-fer is . . . John Mortimer! Christopher Hitchens&#8217; obit for Mr. Mortimer was pretty entertaining; any idea if his books are worth checking out? And did everyone but me know that he&#8217;s Emily Mortimer&#8217;s dad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":3327,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-part-3","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":0},"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":3371,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-0kay","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":1},"title":"0-fer 0kay!","author":"Gil","date":"February 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Whew!","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":3320,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-part-2","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":2},"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":4323,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/well-0-fer-have-paris","url_meta":{"origin":3613,"position":3},"title":"We&#8217;ll 0-fer Have Paris","author":"Gil","date":"August 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago, I ran the 0-fer test on the first volume of the new Paris Review Interviews series. Since I'm utterly unimaginative, let's go check out Volume 2 and see which literary titans I've managed to avoid completely! 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Only having thought up this idea this morning, I decided to dive into the \"canonical appendixes\" of Harold Bloom's Western Canon, since\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":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1573225142","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}]}}