{"id":66,"date":"2006-02-23T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-02-23T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T12:19:09","slug":"london-a-history-by-an-wilsonrandom-house-modern-library-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/london-a-history-by-an-wilsonrandom-house-modern-library-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"London: A History by A.N. WilsonRandom House (Modern Library), 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fine brief overview of London history, though lacking in the kind of detailed and personal description that I enjoy in city-books like H.V. Morton&#8217;s. Also, I rather disagree with Mr. Wilson on the subject of modern and contemporary art, so at the end of the book, I was left rolling my eyes at his mention of the Tate Modern as an example of the &#8220;moronization&#8221; of the city. (I mean: how can anyone be less than charmed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/servlet\/ViewWork?workid=2988\">the lobster telephone<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/servlet\/ViewWork?workid=26306&#038;searchid=8730&#038;roomid=3540&#038;tabview=image\">Susan Hiller&#8217;s boxes<\/a>?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine brief overview of London history, though lacking in the kind of detailed and personal description that I enjoy in city-books like H.V. Morton&#8217;s. Also, I rather disagree with Mr. Wilson on the subject of modern and contemporary art, so at the end of the book, I was left rolling my eyes at his [&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-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}