{"id":1594,"date":"2009-01-22T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2009-01-22T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:21:00","slug":"poodie_james_announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/01\/poodie_james_announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Poodie James Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/poodie-thumb-100x154-3178.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for poodie.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/poodie-thumb-100x154-3178-thumb-100x154-3179.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"154\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>The publisher of <em>Poodie James<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0has good news for you, if not for my royalty statements. He has reduced the price. If you have yet to pick up a copy, be advised that the book is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libroslibertad.ca\/book.php?id=5\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poodie-James-Doug-Ramsey\/dp\/0978186559\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  From a review:&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>I&#8217;ll cut to the chase: <em>Poodie James<\/em> is a very good book. Not only is it handsomely and lyrically written, but Ramsey&#8217;s snapshots of small-town life circa 1948 are altogether convincing, and he has even brought off the immensely difficult trick of worming his way into the consciousness of a deaf person without betraying the slightest sense of strain&#8230; Ramsey is no less adept at sketching the constant tension between tolerance and suspicion that is part and parcel of the communal life of every small town.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>&#8221;\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>&#8221;\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; Terry Teachout, <em>commentarymagazine.com<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><em><\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\nTo read the full review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/teachout\/1058\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publisher of Poodie James&#8221;\u00a0has good news for you, if not for my royalty statements. He has reduced the price. If you have yet to pick up a copy, be advised that the book is available here and here. From a review:&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;ll cut to the chase: Poodie James is a very good book. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}