{"id":2977,"date":"2020-10-17T19:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T03:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2020-10-17T19:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T03:33:51","slug":"review-slouching-toward-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Review: Slouching Toward Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Slouching Toward Bethlehem<\/em> seems to be required reading for LA aficionados.  I&#8217;m certainly one of those, so I did get around to reading this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joan Didion impressed me in two ways.  First she&#8217;s a remarkably good writer technically.  Her prose is beautifully organized, cinematic, and expressive. Whether she is sharing personal memories of John Wayne or the ramifications of a homicide in the Inland Empire, her writing is enlightening and gripping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s harder to describe how her writing exhibits a pervasive and influential view of the area.  Her tone, viewpoints, and expressions have influenced so many writers and performers that I feel have captured something that runs through all of LA.  It&#8217;s always beautiful and exciting to see roots of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slouching Toward Bethlehem seems to be required reading for LA aficionados. I&#8217;m certainly one of those, so I did get around to reading this. Joan Didion impressed me in two ways. First she&#8217;s a remarkably good writer technically. Her prose is beautifully organized, cinematic, and expressive. Whether she is sharing personal memories of John Wayne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","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=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}