{"id":897,"date":"2014-06-18T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=897"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:40","slug":"satirist-george-saunders-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Satirist George Saunders Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and none of yer nostalgia-y haze is safe.  Makes me almost forgive Mr. Bob Dylan&#8217;s own liner notes.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just sorry George had to leave off mentioning ELO&#8217;s &#8220;concept&#8221; albums, or Jethro Tull&#8217;s, or the majestick edifices of that group named Floyd Pink I think it was.  <\/p>\n<p>PS: look for the &#8220;us&#8221; sentences.  Them is sure funny.  <\/p>\n<p>PPS: And while enjoying yer spliff ponder the Proustian effervescences of Time in this concluding one: &#8220;I will always be glad that I was to have been part of this, and then, at a later time, was being part of this, and then, at an even later time, had been part of this, and then, at a much later time, when I am old, I will know that I once had been glad to have had been part of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2014\/06\/23\/140623sh_shouts_saunders?currentPage=all\">George Saunder&#8217;s &#8220;Liner Notes,&#8221;<\/a> from <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, June 23 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and none of yer nostalgia-y haze is safe. Makes me almost forgive Mr. Bob Dylan&#8217;s own liner notes. I&#8217;m just sorry George had to leave off mentioning ELO&#8217;s &#8220;concept&#8221; albums, or Jethro Tull&#8217;s, or the majestick edifices of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[98,99,96,101,100,97],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}