{"id":306,"date":"2010-09-02T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=306"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T21:55:15","slug":"break-it-down-lydia-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2010\/09\/02\/break-it-down-lydia-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Break it Down &#8212; Lydia Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374531447?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0374531447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lydia-davis-break-it-down.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lydia Davis - Break It Down\" width=\"343\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-307\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0374531447\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>This is a collection of short stories; but mostly they are so short I would call them sketches rather than stories. Some are only a paragraph or two. Quite dense and evocative. Some are quite affecting, such as the title story.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Leslie for lending me this on a long plane journey many years ago. (In 2000, if you must know.)<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a collection of short stories; but mostly they are so short I would call them sketches rather than stories. Some are only a paragraph or two. Quite dense and evocative. Some are quite affecting, such as the title &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2010\/09\/02\/break-it-down-lydia-davis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[4,41,64],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-review","tag-books","tag-lydia-davis","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}