{"id":909,"date":"2004-05-20T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:18:22","slug":"lm-montgomery-on-the-blind-bow-boy-by-carl-van-vechten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"LM Montgomery on \u201cThe Blind Bow-Boy\u201d by Carl Van Vechten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This book is an incredible compound of stupidity, vanity, and nastiness.  Yet it has been praised in reviews as &#8216;exceedingly clever and brilliant&#8217;.  I should class it with the dull dirty things obscene little boys scribble on the walls of waterclosets.  Faugh!  I flung the thing into the furnace when I had finished it and washed my hands to get rid of the atmosphere of putrescence.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a pigsty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B000NUU1JC&#038;asins=B000NUU1JC&#038;linkId=6F5JJOVRHYSC7S6N&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This book is an incredible compound of stupidity, vanity, and nastiness. Yet it has been praised in reviews as &#8216;exceedingly clever and brilliant&#8217;. I should class it with the dull dirty things obscene little boys scribble on the walls of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=909\">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":[],"categories":[15,9],"tags":[183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101422,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/101422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}