{"id":754,"date":"2005-03-20T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:04","slug":"the_oddest_damn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"The Oddest Damn Thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TG and I took Littlest Guy to the library today (he got &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140366679\/armedliberal-20?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;link_code=as1\" target=\"browser\">White Fang<\/a>&#8221; and a sci-fi book), and I picked up a few things to read &#8211; J.L. Gaddis&#8217; book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/associates.amazon.com\/gp\/associates\/network\/build-links\/individual\/get-html.html\/102-0383015-6117701?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;asin=0674011740&#038;t=armedliberal-20\" target=\"browser\">Surprise, Security and the American Experience<\/a>,&#8221; which I&#8217;ll read this week, along with Bruce Wagner&#8217;s well-reviewed novel &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743243390\/armedliberal-20?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;link_code=as1\" target=\"browser\">The Chrysanthemum Palace<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I started Wagner&#8217;s book and had the oddest experience&#8230;he was writing about my life. I mean literally. He talks about three episodes from my high-school years directly. It was disturbing, so I looked up his bio and it appears that we were in  school together, and both dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>It was just damn strange to read a novel and discover things I&#8217;d put on memory&#8217;s shelf. I put the book aside for a bit, and I&#8217;ll finish it tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TG and I took Littlest Guy to the library today (he got &#8220;White Fang&#8221; and a sci-fi book), and I picked up a few things to read &#8211; J.L. Gaddis&#8217; book &#8220;Surprise, Security and the American Experience,&#8221; which I&#8217;ll read this week, along with Bruce Wagner&#8217;s well-reviewed novel &#8220;The Chrysanthemum Palace.&#8221; I started Wagner&#8217;s book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}