{"id":974,"date":"2009-01-10T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/the-best-american-short-stories-edited-by-salman-rushdie\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:20:56","slug":"the-best-american-short-stories-edited-by-salman-rushdie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/the-best-american-short-stories-edited-by-salman-rushdie\/","title":{"rendered":"the best american short stories. edited by salman rushdie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/salman-rushdie-t.jpg' alt='The Best American Short Stories edited by Salman Rushdie' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m eating crumpets smothered in Lurpak and reading from one of my Christmas gifts:  The Best American Short Stories (2008), edited by Salman Rushdie.  <\/p>\n<p>In the past, short stories have not always been my favourite thing.  I like to be in it for the long haul.  But I&#8217;ve found they make exceedingly good bed fellows lately.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m eating crumpets smothered in Lurpak and reading from one of my Christmas gifts: The Best American Short Stories (2008), edited by Salman Rushdie. In the past, short stories have not always been my favourite thing. I like to be in it for the long haul. But I&#8217;ve found they make exceedingly good bed fellows<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews","tag-salman-rushdie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}