{"id":2048,"date":"2010-04-23T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T01:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2010-04-23T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T01:16:35","slug":"2048","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2010\/04\/23\/2048\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have, <a href=\"\/nfd\/2010\/02\/28\/still-playing-catchup-on-my-2009-material\/\">as expected<\/a>, read more Maureen McHugh&#8211;specifically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/48861\">Nekropolis<\/a>.  I liked it more than China Mountain Zhang, in that it had a much defter way of pulling my heart out and stomping on it.  The problem with writers who deal in compassion is that they are <i>mean.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>McHugh has a prose style which I believe I am required to call &#8220;unadorned&#8221; and which I don&#8217;t typically go for&#8211;despite all my protestations about clarity and Strunk and White, I am easily seduced by linguistic fireworks (Douglas Adams, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Ellen Kushner, et al).  She makes me understand why people get so lathered about Hemingway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have, as expected, read more Maureen McHugh&#8211;specifically Nekropolis. I liked it more than China Mountain Zhang, in that it had a much defter way of pulling my heart out and stomping on it. The problem with writers who deal in compassion is that they are mean. McHugh has a prose style which I believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}