{"id":6311,"date":"2009-07-16T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2009-07-16T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:12:07","slug":"books-that-defeated-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6311","title":{"rendered":"Books That Defeated Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2009\/07\/books-defeated-me\">Kevin Drum<\/a> writes about books that he couldn't finish. I have a few, and they include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Joyce: Ulysses\n<li>Pynchon: The Crying Of Lot 49\n<li>Eliot: Middlemarch\n<li>Faulkner: Light In August\n<li>Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ulysses is obvious; nobody finishes that thing. I couldn't get into Lot 49. The writing in Middlemarch just crushed me. Light In August... I dunno, too slow. And I don't remember anything about BoC except that it put me off Vonnegut for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum writes about books that he couldn't finish. I have a few, and they include: Joyce: Ulysses Pynchon: The Crying Of Lot 49 Eliot: Middlemarch Faulkner: Light In August Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions Ulysses is obvious; nobody finishes that thing. I couldn't get into Lot 49. The writing in Middlemarch just crushed me. Light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}