{"id":17854,"date":"2015-10-04T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T17:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=17854"},"modified":"2015-10-04T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T17:29:34","slug":"a-sentence-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/10\/a-sentence-for-the-ages.html","title":{"rendered":"A Sentence for the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seriously …<\/p>\n

He might spend a bless\u00e8d day with a bottle of absinthe, oblivious to the sun that fell like a stone, dozing peacefully under the muddled stars in a pool of his own vomit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That sentence \u2014 from page 164 of Graham Robb’s Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris<\/a><\/em> \u2014 is hard to beat. And so is the book, which was recommended by one of the most literate of my staff of thousands. <\/center><\/p>\n
<\/a>

Published by W. W. Norton & Company
[first edition, 2010]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously … He might spend a bless\u00e8d day with a bottle of absinthe, oblivious to the sun that fell like a stone, dozing peacefully under the muddled stars in a pool of his own vomit. That sentence \u2014 from page 164 of Graham Robb’s Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris \u2014 is hard to beat. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/parisians-cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-4DY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854","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=17854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17867,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854\/revisions\/17867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}