{"id":1932,"date":"2014-07-06T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2014-07-06T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:12:05","slug":"review-every-day-is-for-the-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1932","title":{"rendered":"Review: Every Day Is For The Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teju Cole has created a beautiful, low key, memoir of a visit to his home country of Nigeria.\u00a0 Each chapter is a short vignette capturing a facet of himself or Nigeria, or both.<\/p>\n<p>Cole write clearly, beautifully and almost hypnotically.\u00a0 Each chapter captures a moment or a day in his time there cleanly and clearly without unnecessary fireworks.\u00a0 The overall feeling is that you have joined Cole on his trip invisibly and intimately.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks of his concern for the country&#8217;s corruption and shallowness, but the condemnation is not one of an angry activist.\u00a0 His goal seems to be illumination, not rallying.\u00a0 The result is a powerful view that leaves the reader more interpretive space than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teju Cole has created a beautiful, low key, memoir of a visit to his home country of Nigeria.\u00a0 Each chapter is a short vignette capturing a facet of himself or Nigeria, or both. Cole write clearly, beautifully and almost hypnotically.\u00a0 Each chapter captures a moment or a day in his time there cleanly and clearly [&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-1932","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\/1932","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=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}