{"id":52,"date":"2003-09-29T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=52"},"modified":"2005-12-04T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:33:20","slug":"one-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/one-good-thing","title":{"rendered":"One Good Thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; about spending 24 hours on <em><strong>The Fall of the Towers<\/strong><\/em>: it meant I stopped trying to read <em><strong>The Adventures of Kavalier &#038; Clay,<\/strong><\/em> which simply isn&#8217;t a good book, 150 pages in. If you&#8217;re not going to write in a high literary style, then you better be an awfully good storyteller. <em><strong>Carter Beats the Devil<\/strong><\/em> works just great in that field, and <em><strong>Gould&#8217;s Book of Fish<\/strong><\/em> sorta manages to string those two modes together (to name two recent books I&#8217;ve read). But Chabon&#8217;s book is just dully written, with a story that&#8217;s failed to capture my interest twice now. And given that it&#8217;s about escape artistry, eastern European Jewish history, and comics, it shouldn&#8217;t be THAT tough to come up with something I&#8217;d like to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; about spending 24 hours on The Fall of the Towers: it meant I stopped trying to read The Adventures of Kavalier &#038; Clay, which simply isn&#8217;t a good book, 150 pages in. If you&#8217;re not going to write in a high literary style, then you better be an awfully good storyteller. Carter Beats the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/one-good-thing\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Good Thing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-52","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-Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}