{"id":1294,"date":"2009-06-03T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:45:05","slug":"t-s-spivet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"T.S. Spivet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intrigued by Christopher Lydon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioopensource.org\/reif-larsen-the-making-of-the-spivet-legend\/\">interview with author Reif Larsen<\/a> (a 45-minute podcast), I asked the nice folks at Amazon to slip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Selected-Works-T-S-Spivet\/dp\/1594202176\"><b>The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet<\/b><\/a> onto a brown truck and hey presto it arrived yesterday. I&#8217;ll bet that you&#8217;ll do something similar once you&#8217;ve visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsspivet.com\/\">the book&#8217;s Web site<\/a>, though some might be deterred by the last sentence of Philip Marchand&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/afterword\/archive\/2009\/05\/09\/philip-marchand-the-selected-works-of-t-s-spivet.aspx\">review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like the Smithsonian, the novel is full of acquired curiosities whose significance and place in a larger order is very hard to figure out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, well, some of us think life&#8217;s a bit like that. And some of us (but not <i>all<\/i> of us) really relish the figuring. Probably the same people who relish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.io.com\/~iareth\/codindx.html\"><b>Codex<\/b><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Codex_Seraphinianus\"><b>Seraphinianus<\/b><\/a> (explore <a href=http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=\"codex+seraphinianus\">some images<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrigued by Christopher Lydon&#8217;s interview with author Reif Larsen (a 45-minute podcast), I asked the nice folks at Amazon to slip The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet onto a brown truck and hey presto it arrived yesterday. I&#8217;ll bet that you&#8217;ll do something similar once you&#8217;ve visited the book&#8217;s Web site, though some might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}