{"id":2157,"date":"2018-07-13T22:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T10:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2018-12-01T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T08:24:06","slug":"slouching-towards-bethlehem-joan-didion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2018\/07\/13\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-joan-didion\/","title":{"rendered":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem &#8212; Joan Didion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2237\" data-wp-pid=\"2237\" nopin=\"nopin\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This classic book of essays is divided into three parts. The first part covers California in the 1960s. This makes the sixties seem just as crazy as their reputation &#8212; Didion lived through some turbulent times back then so I&#8217;m glad she wrote it all down for us to read about. The third part of the book is more varied as she writes about various other places from different viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The middle of the book is my favourite part. These more personal essays are just wonderful. She can capture feelings with uncanny accuracy and she offers a lot of wisdom and understanding. I will be rereading them often.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This classic book of essays is divided into three parts. The first part covers California in the 1960s. This makes the sixties seem just as crazy as their reputation &#8212; Didion lived through some turbulent times back then so I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2018\/07\/13\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-joan-didion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,149,148],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-essays","tag-joan-didion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}