{"id":2540,"date":"2002-06-14T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2002-06-14T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2002-06-14T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2002-06-14T19:29:24","slug":"books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0394542266\/armedliberal-20 target=\u0094browser\u0094>Suspects<\/a>, a novel by film critic David Thompson.<br \/>\nIt\u0092s not well-known, but it\u0092s brilliant if you\u0092ve a patient mind. The book is in the form of a series of interconnected fictional capsule biographies (3 adjectives!!) of film characters. It begins with Jake Gittes, of Chinatown, ends with George Bailey, and in the arc between perfectly describes a view of America as a giant dysfunctional family.<br \/>\nNot only a fun read, but my <a href-www.netflix.com target=\u0094browser\u0094>Netflix<\/a> queue just got filled waay up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished Suspects, a novel by film critic David Thompson. It\u0092s not well-known, but it\u0092s brilliant if you\u0092ve a patient mind. The book is in the form of a series of interconnected fictional capsule biographies (3 adjectives!!) of film characters. It begins with Jake Gittes, of Chinatown, ends with George Bailey, and in the arc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}