{"id":4148,"date":"2009-07-08T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2009-07-03T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T01:42:01","slug":"get-0-fer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/get-0-fer","title":{"rendered":"Get 0-fer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s literary 0-fer? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmoreleonard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elmore Leonard<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have a suggestion for which of his books I should try?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s literary 0-fer? Elmore Leonard! Anyone have a suggestion for which of his books I should try?<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-14U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3803,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-unlike-father-like-son","url_meta":{"origin":4148,"position":0},"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 &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=1596915285","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4299,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/even-0-fers-get-the-blues","url_meta":{"origin":4148,"position":1},"title":"Even 0-fers Get the Blues","author":"Gil","date":"August 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of Sam Anderson's \"I never liked you\" review of the new Thomas Pynchon novel (a book I'm uninterested in reading), which is based in the wonderful world of 1970, this week's 0-fer is . . . Tom Robbins! 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