{"id":816,"date":"2015-07-31T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T00:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-07-31T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T00:39:59","slug":"the-way-the-world-works-nicholson-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2015\/07\/31\/the-way-the-world-works-nicholson-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way the World Works &#8212; Nicholson Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-way-the-world-works-590x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Way the World Works\" width=\"590\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-way-the-world-works-590x1024.jpg 590w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-way-the-world-works-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-way-the-world-works-86x150.jpg 86w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-way-the-world-works-800x1389.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-way-the-world-works-1037x1800.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-way-the-world-works.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/>This is a collection of essays on topics that have caught Baker&#8217;s eye. There are reports of his (in)famous efforts to preserve library newspaper collections, as well as thoughts on pacifism and video games, and a fascinating story of his brief immersion in the world of Wikipedia editing. As always, he comes across as intelligent and thoughtful, perhaps excessively so. But he has a nice turn of phrase and a strong social conscience.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a follow-up, of sorts, to his <cite>The Size of Thoughts<\/cite> from 15 or so years ago, which I bought because I liked the cover. Baker&#8217;s non-fiction is a nice contrast with his very discursive novel <cite>Room Temperature<\/cite>, and worlds away from the low-key perversities of <cite>Vox<\/cite> and <cite>The Fermata<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a collection of essays on topics that have caught Baker&#8217;s eye. There are reports of his (in)famous efforts to preserve library newspaper collections, as well as thoughts on pacifism and video games, and a fascinating story of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2015\/07\/31\/the-way-the-world-works-nicholson-baker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,74],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-nicholson-baker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}