{"id":462,"date":"2003-08-03T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2003-08-03T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=462"},"modified":"2007-02-22T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T14:21:47","slug":"well-go-honky-tonkin-round-this-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll Go Honky-Tonkin&#8217; Round This Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No posts of <a href=\"http:\/\/borzoiblog.com\/archives\/000054.html\">&#8220;crystalline beauty&#8221;<\/a> (&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/borzoiblog.com\/\">Greg Hlatky<\/a>, who must be making some kind of chemistry joke) seem to be materializing. Try these instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.101-280.com\/archives\/000107.html\">Evan Kirchhoff<\/a> rips Andrew Sullivan a new, er, one, on the subject of &#8220;gay bears.&#8221; Have I mentioned that Evan Kirchhoff is a genius? Why yes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=459\">Yes I have<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/floyd.best.vwh.net\/weblog\/2003_07_27_archive.html#105985734301008568\">Floyd McWilliams<\/a>, the scourge of the <span class=\"booktitle\">San Jose Mercury News<\/span> letters page, on fact checking for me but not for thee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2003_07_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#105969239892493402\">Eve Tushnet<\/a>, discussing Marvel comics, gets around to the purpose of literature, in her scattered but endearing way. I will post some thoughts on this, my stomping grounds, when I locate my crystalline-beauty-tron again.<\/p>\n<p>Modern education: what is to be done? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2blowhards.com\/archives\/000948.html#000948\">Friedrich von Blowhard<\/a> reaches some dubious conclusions but provides a lot of great history along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-baseball.com\/bronxbanter\/archives\/003130.html\">Christopher DeRosa<\/a> on why no one evaluates Derek Jeter rationally, except him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetearsofthings.net\/archives\/000028.html\">Jerome du Bois<\/a> on art-sadist Santiago Sierra. It is lengthy, but if you read only one, read this one. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/spleenville.com\/journal\/\">Andrea Harris<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No posts of &#8220;crystalline beauty&#8221; (&#8211;Greg Hlatky, who must be making some kind of chemistry joke) seem to be materializing. Try these instead. Evan Kirchhoff rips Andrew Sullivan a new, er, one, on the subject of &#8220;gay bears.&#8221; Have I mentioned that Evan Kirchhoff is a genius? Why yes. Yes I have. Floyd McWilliams, the <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=462' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-21-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}