{"id":1805,"date":"2013-08-24T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2013-08-24T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:59:41","slug":"review-i-wear-the-black-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Review: I Wear The Black Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I talked about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=843\"><em> Eating The Dinosaur,<\/em><\/a> I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Klosterman is a man who takes ephemeral and sometimes frivolous things seriously, and then subjects them to a meticulous dissection under the light of a strong intellect.\u00a0 Then he composes those thoughts in a way that is compelling and diverting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s an apt a description of <em>I Wear The Black Hat<\/em> as it is of <em>Dinosaur<\/em>. These essays are somewhat more thematically related, as they are all about villainy in one form or another, but I wouldn&#8217;t say that they cohere into a book-long discussion of the topic.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t trouble me much.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pretty much read a pack of Klosterman essays for any reason at all.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I talked about Eating The Dinosaur, I said: Klosterman is a man who takes ephemeral and sometimes frivolous things seriously, and then subjects them to a meticulous dissection under the light of a strong intellect.\u00a0 Then he composes those thoughts in a way that is compelling and diverting. That&#8217;s an apt a description of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}