{"id":1136,"date":"2008-12-13T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T11:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:23:52","slug":"on-the-nacirema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"On the Nacirema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;field-keywords=lileks&#038;x=0&#038;y=0\">some ESSENTIAL books<\/a>) is always entertaining and sometimes downright percipient in fingering the squirmiest aspects of American culture. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/08\/1208\/121208.html\">a recent posting<\/a> he unreels Peter Lorre&#8217;s <i>Mr. Moto&#8217;s Last Warning<\/i> (1939 &#8211;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Motos-Last-Warning-Peter-Lorre\/dp\/B00006SFJA\">available via Amazon<\/a>) and includes some wonderful stills:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/100mysteries\/12\/7.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>of which he notes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Augh! It&#8217;s like a blow-up love toy for a planet of mimes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might also enjoy his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/rest\/exteriors\/52.html\">Coffee and Chrome: restaurants from the days before the chains<\/a> among other things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/index.html\">on the Menu<\/a> at his site, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/fargo\/index.html\">Fargo 1950<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/index.html\">The Institute of Official Cheer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks (author of some ESSENTIAL books) is always entertaining and sometimes downright percipient in fingering the squirmiest aspects of American culture. In a recent posting he unreels Peter Lorre&#8217;s Mr. Moto&#8217;s Last Warning (1939 &#8211;and available via Amazon) and includes some wonderful stills: of which he notes Augh! It&#8217;s like a blow-up love toy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nacirema","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}