{"id":1281,"date":"2005-10-24T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/10\/crossing_miss_piggy_with_holly\/"},"modified":"2005-10-24T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T18:29:21","slug":"crossing_miss_piggy_with_holly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/crossing_miss_piggy_with_holly.html","title":{"rendered":"CROSSING MISS PIGGY WITH HOLLY GOLIGHTLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tartcity.com\/misspiggy.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miss Piggy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tartcity.com\/misspiggy4.jpg\" width=100 align=right border=0><\/a> Michiko Kakutani does a terrific job channeling <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miss_Piggy\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Miss Piggy<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/24\/books\/24kaku.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>review of &#8220;Summer Crossing,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> Truman Capote&#8217;s recently dug-up <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1400065224\/qid=1130168525\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-5618531-0340703?v=glance&#038;s=books\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>first novel<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, has all the insouciant vocal tics and mannerisms that made Miss Piggy so truly, truly <i>je ne sais quoi<\/i>. Who knew Kakutani was such a great ventriloquist? She&#8217;d like us to believe it&#8217;s Holly speaking, which is pretty clever &#8212; and entertaining, too. And we went for it, except that Miss Piggy kept wiggling out, as usual trying to hog the spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Piggy. Her first novel, has all the insouciant vocal tics and mannerisms that made Miss Piggy so truly, truly je ne sais quoi. Who knew Kakutani was such a great ventriloquist? She&#8217;d like us to believe it&#8217;s Holly speaking, which is pretty clever &#8212; and entertaining, too. And we went for it, except that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-1281","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-kF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}