{"id":9042,"date":"2020-12-21T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:53:38","slug":"yes-another-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9042","title":{"rendered":"YES, ANOTHER BOOK OF THE YEAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>In short compass (unlike\u00a0<em>Moby-Dick<\/em>!) Philbrick gives the reader a wonderful preview of the riches in\u00a0<em>Moby-Dick<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am very interested in early nineteenth century literature (Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Fuller, et al.). Philbrick\u2019s book motivates me to revisit Melville\u2019s great work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philbrick is a skilled wordsmith and offers many suggestive and wonderful insights about human life in the midst of an uncertain and many times terrifying world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Read Moby-Dick?\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B0052RERYQ\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short compass (unlike\u00a0Moby-Dick!) Philbrick gives the reader a wonderful preview of the riches in\u00a0Moby-Dick. I am very interested in early nineteenth century literature (Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Fuller, et al.). Philbrick\u2019s book motivates me to revisit Melville\u2019s great work. Philbrick is a skilled wordsmith and offers many suggestive and wonderful insights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9045,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}