{"id":110,"date":"2006-12-10T18:06:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=110"},"modified":"2006-12-10T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T22:06:33","slug":"grief-lessons-four-plays-by-euripides-translated-by-anne-carsonnew-york-review-of-books-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/grief-lessons-four-plays-by-euripides-translated-by-anne-carsonnew-york-review-of-books-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief Lessons: Four plays by Euripides, translated by Anne CarsonNew York Review of Books, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the lucidity of Carson&#8217;s prose, the framing essays around these plays, and the prefaces to each one: the sense of knowledge and ease and also a sly smile when she writes things like &#8220;The first eight hundred lines of the play will bore you, they&#8217;re supposed to.&#8221; The four plays: Herakles, Hekabe, Hippolytos, Alkestis: Herakles and his madness, Hekabe and her rage, Hippolytos and his prudishness, the riddle of Alkestis. Carson&#8217;s language is minimalist, never forced: &#8220;God found a way\/to be surprising.\/That&#8217;s how this went.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the lucidity of Carson&#8217;s prose, the framing essays around these plays, and the prefaces to each one: the sense of knowledge and ease and also a sly smile when she writes things like &#8220;The first eight hundred lines of the play will bore you, they&#8217;re supposed to.&#8221; The four plays: Herakles, Hekabe, Hippolytos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","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=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}