{"id":101,"date":"2006-10-24T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=101"},"modified":"2006-10-24T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T00:53:37","slug":"mr-dimock-explores-the-mysteries-of-the-east-by-edward-cameron-dimockalgonquin-books-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/mr-dimock-explores-the-mysteries-of-the-east-by-edward-cameron-dimockalgonquin-books-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East by Edward Cameron DimockAlgonquin Books, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book, subtitled &#8220;Journeys in India,&#8221; is a series of clever and chatty vignettes about Indian culture and life on the Indian subcontinent. Dimock is at his best telling funny stories: the one about the monkey who gets into the house and amuses itself at Dimock&#8217;s wife&#8217;s dressing table; the one about the difficulties of trying to track down and get permission to see old manuscripts in India, the one about getting inadvertently stoned on hashish. Elsewhere, I got distracted, or tired of Dimock&#8217;s cleverness or the episodic nature of these essays. (Which isn&#8217;t to lay the blame on Dimock or his writing: maybe I was in the mood for a novel and shouldn&#8217;t have been reading a book like this one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book, subtitled &#8220;Journeys in India,&#8221; is a series of clever and chatty vignettes about Indian culture and life on the Indian subcontinent. Dimock is at his best telling funny stories: the one about the monkey who gets into the house and amuses itself at Dimock&#8217;s wife&#8217;s dressing table; the one about the difficulties of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}