{"id":1160,"date":"2005-06-11T12:57:35","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/06\/so_not_his_cup_of_tea\/"},"modified":"2005-06-11T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T19:57:35","slug":"so_not_his_cup_of_tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/06\/so_not_his_cup_of_tea.html","title":{"rendered":"SO <I>NOT<\/i> HIS CUP OF TEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader took notice of <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20050601.shtml#100737\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>my recommendation<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> the other<br \/>\nday. (OK, if you must know, it was one of my staff of thousands who took notice.) He writes:<br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Jan, we bought the Watson book <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006621064X\/qid=1118324485\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_\nbbs_b_2_1\/002-0820780-0660049\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;Ideas.&#8221;<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> It is good, but not as good as I had hoped. Too<br \/>\nbreezy. I like a tighter line. He spends a lot of time on religion. Not my idea of important ideas.<br \/>\nThose are such subjective beliefs, why even argue about them. Same goes for whether there is<br \/>\nsome mysterious inner being. Who gives a damn. The business about emptiness is a couple of<br \/>\npages at the very end. He mentions Gray in the discussion, which is perhaps why Gray gave so<br \/>\nmuch weight to that tiny part of the book. It&#8217;s like reviewing a Mercedes and devoting half the<br \/>\narticle to the hood ornament.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s one thing to diss the review, another to diss the book under review. To do both &#8212; a<br \/>\ndouble diss &#8212; rates a 3.6 <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/uk\/sports\/programme\/glossary_uk.asp?DiscCode=DV\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>degree of difficulty<\/B><\/FONT><\/A>. That last<br \/>\nsentence puts him in the water without a splash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader took notice of my recommendation the other day. (OK, if you must know, it was one of my staff of thousands who took notice.) He writes: Jan, we bought the Watson book &#8220;Ideas.&#8221; It is good, but not as good as I had hoped. Too breezy. I like a tighter line. He spends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-iI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}