{"id":4344,"date":"2009-08-19T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2009-08-14T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T00:03:29","slug":"0-fer-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-africa","title":{"rendered":"0-fer Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Sec. Clinton’s recent trip to the dark continent, this week’s literary 0-fer is . . . Isak Dinesen<\/a>!<\/p>\n

If she wrote under “Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke,” I probably would’ve gotten around to reading her by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Sec. Clinton’s recent trip to the dark continent, this week’s literary 0-fer is . . . Isak Dinesen! If she wrote under “Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke,” I probably would’ve gotten around to reading her by now.<\/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":[812],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-0-fer","category-literature","tag-isak-dinesen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-184","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7969,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-wax-rhapsodic-2","url_meta":{"origin":4344,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: Wax, Rhapsodic","author":"Gil","date":"June 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories: Rupert Thomson - Wax, Rhapsodic \"There is a kind of comfort in having a part of yourself that will never be known, can never be known, by others.\" Genre-jumping author Rupert Thomson\u00a0joins the show to talk about\u00a0his\u00a0new novel, Secrecy\u00a0(Other Press), a 1690's-based thriller about the Florentine wax-sculptor Zumbo.\u00a0Along\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rupert-thomson-011.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rupert-thomson-011.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rupert-thomson-011.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12522,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-341-chris-ware","url_meta":{"origin":4344,"position":1},"title":"Episode 341 – Chris Ware","author":"Gil","date":"September 30, 2019","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 341: Chris Ware \"Something in comics allows the concretization of the weird shifting and changing of our memories and senses of selves. It comes out organically in the drawing of a story.\" With the publication of part 1 of Rusty Brown (Pantheon), Chris Ware joins the show\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/warecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C586&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/warecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C586&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/warecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C586&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/warecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C586&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/warecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C586&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3895,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cinc0-fer-de-mayo","url_meta":{"origin":4344,"position":2},"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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