{"id":573,"date":"2010-09-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2010-09-26T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T14:25:29","slug":"review-of-joseph-skibells-new-novel-a-curable-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/review-of-joseph-skibells-new-novel-a-curable-romantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Joseph Skibell&#039;s new novel, &quot;A Curable Romantic&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a url to my review of Joseph Skibell&#8217;s new novel, <em>A Curable Romantic<\/em>, which appears in today&#8217;s <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>. It&#8217;s a quick review of a rather long (nearly 600 pages in the galley edition), complicated novel.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/books\/stories\/DN-bk_romantic_0926gd.ART.State.Bulldog.3343f4f.html<br \/>\nIf I had my druthers, all book reviews would be 1,000 words long (usually my first draft), and all novels 250 pages (just long enough to be pleasing). You&#8217;d have to apply for a War and Peace Special Exception Permit, with Soviet-style multiple copies and inky stamps frowned upon by bureaucrats smoking foul-smelling cigarettes in dirty-tile offices with broken venetian blinds. You get the picture: a serious deterrent, but if you&#8217;ve got the moxie, keep on truckin&#8217;. (Rare to see <em>that<\/em> word combo.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a url to my review of Joseph Skibell&#8217;s new novel, A Curable Romantic, which appears in today&#8217;s Dallas Morning News. It&#8217;s a quick review of a rather long (nearly 600 pages in the galley edition), complicated novel. http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/books\/stories\/DN-bk_romantic_0926gd.ART.State.Bulldog.3343f4f.html If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/review-of-joseph-skibells-new-novel-a-curable-romantic\/\">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-573","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\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}