{"id":5200,"date":"2012-08-02T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2012-08-02T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T02:59:12","slug":"unfamiliar-fishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/unfamiliar-fishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfamiliar Fishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10133952-unfamiliar-fishes\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unfamiliar Fishes\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1294301496m\/10133952.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10133952-unfamiliar-fishes\">Unfamiliar Fishes<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2122.Sarah_Vowell\">Sarah Vowell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, Sarah Vowell brings a unique and personal perspective to some overlooked areas of American history.  I can&#8217;t say that I loved this as much as some of her earlier endeavors, but only because (as a north easterner), I think I have more context to place works such as Partly-Cloudy Patriot and Assassination Vacation.  Nonetheless, this was a thoroughly enjoyable read, and Vowell&#8217;s unique voice brings some entertaining commentary to what is, in actuality, the fairly horrible history of our treatment of the Hawaiian people.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4176347-samantha\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell As always, Sarah Vowell brings a unique and personal perspective to some overlooked areas of American history. I can&#8217;t say that I loved this as much as some of her earlier endeavors, but only because (as a north easterner), I think I have more context to place works such as [&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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4,9],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-politics-and-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-1lS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}