{"id":4862,"date":"2009-06-20T11:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2009-06-20T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:16:49","slug":"review-michael-perry-coop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/review-michael-perry-coop\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Michael Perry: COOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Book Book: COOP, by Michael Perry\" href=\"http:\/\/thebookbook.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/michael-perrycoop.html\" target=\"_blank\">My review<\/a> at <em>The Book Book<\/em> is up (as <a title=\"Earlier RAMH post: 'The Road to Hell Is Paved with Hard Decisions'\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-hard-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\">promised<\/a>, weeks ago).<\/p>\n<p>I think most of you are probably familiar with E.B. White&#8217;s <em>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/em> and (with Will Strunk) <em>The Elements of Style<\/em>, maybe <em>Stuart Little<\/em> and so on. If you&#8217;ve read his book of essays, though &#8212; particularly the ones written once he left the city to live on a farm in rural Maine &#8212; you&#8217;ll be familiar with some of the themes which <em>Coop<\/em> explores, both the light-hearted and the profoundly moving.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Perry is not E.B. White. And thank heavens for that (in both directions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review at The Book Book is up (as promised, weeks ago). I think most of you are probably familiar with E.B. White&#8217;s Charlotte&#8217;s Web and (with Will Strunk) The Elements of Style, maybe Stuart Little and so on. If you&#8217;ve read his book of essays, though &#8212; particularly the ones written once he left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,266],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-06_writing","7":"category-book-reviews-writing_cat","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}