{"id":559,"date":"2010-09-18T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2010-09-18T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T15:04:22","slug":"on-freedom-and-facebook-hoopla-im-just-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/18\/on-freedom-and-facebook-hoopla-im-just-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"On &quot;Freedom&quot; and Facebook Hoopla . . . I&#039;m Just Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just saying: Let&#8217;s drop Franzen&#8217;s novel <em>Freedom\u2014<\/em>currently being crammed down our collective throats by mediaworld frenzy\u2014and all the annoying Facebook (&amp; Mark Zuckerberg) overhype into a Time Capsule, bury it, then look again in ten years. Predictions, anyone?<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t read <em>Freedom<\/em> yet, and am not rushing to either: Why: <em>The Corrections<\/em> seemed a total bore to me, and <em>Freedom<\/em> (makes me think of Bush Jr.&#8217;s bombing campaigns: Ah, the Oughts, what a time) is being touted as &#8220;Better than <em>The Corrections<\/em>!&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s nice.<br \/>\nI also can&#8217;t forget being excited to read Lorrie Moore&#8217;s new novel (though a bit suspicious), <em>A Gate at the Stairs<\/em>, last year, after the rave\/ravier\/raviest review by Jonathan Lethem in the NY Times, only to discover a rather tedious experience. A Midwest dysfunctional family saga? Why does that sound familiar?<br \/>\nOf course now&#8217;s the time to quote a true masterpiece,\u00a0<em>The Big Lebowski<\/em>: &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s like, your <em>opinion<\/em>, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just saying: Let&#8217;s drop Franzen&#8217;s novel Freedom\u2014currently being crammed down our collective throats by mediaworld frenzy\u2014and all the annoying Facebook (&amp; Mark Zuckerberg) overhype into a Time Capsule, bury it, then look again in ten years. Predictions, anyone? I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/18\/on-freedom-and-facebook-hoopla-im-just-saying\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}