{"id":1817,"date":"2004-10-25T17:13:22","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T21:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2010-07-10T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T00:04:04","slug":"some-good-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Some Good Reads In the Midst of Red Sox Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/archive\/23\/oct04\/che.htm\">The Cult of Che &#8211;<\/a> by Anthony Daniels (There seems to be a lot of de-bunking-of-the-Che-myth going on right now, and I am quite glad of this.  The sainting-of-Che, the ubiquitous T-shirts everywhere &#8230; I have always found offensive and ridiculous, considering the facts of the man)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/pages\/story.asp?ID=5326\">The Men Who Would be Orwell <\/a>&#8211; Ron Rosenbaum&#8217;s great piece on Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan. It&#8217;s terrific.  I have been reading these guys for a long long time &#8230; but Rosenbaum explains what exactly <i>happened<\/i> post-Sept. 11 and how these two fiery tireless ex-pats have FRAMED the conversation.  It&#8217;s true.  They got out in front of this thing almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Well.  Those are two good reads.  I highly recommend both.  Everything else I&#8217;ve read today has to do with the Red Sox.  I am in a state of suspended animation.  Waiting until tomorrow night.  I am also exhausted.  I woke up today with a sleep-crushed face.  Usually, my face bounces back from sleep almost immediately &#8230; Today, I looked vaguely slack-jawed and sleepy-eyed until nearly 11 am.  I&#8217;m wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with my friend David today. We can&#8217;t even believe it&#8217;s happening &#8230; that we&#8217;re winning.  It&#8217;s weird to not have the Yankees be in the Series.   I feel like I don&#8217;t know where the hell I AM, at times.    Is this really happening right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cult of Che &#8211; by Anthony Daniels (There seems to be a lot of de-bunking-of-the-Che-myth going on right now, and I am quite glad of this. The sainting-of-Che, the ubiquitous T-shirts everywhere &#8230; I have always found offensive and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1545,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16184,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}