{"id":5928,"date":"2011-06-10T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2011-06-10T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:38:59","slug":"his-summer-road-to-perdition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/his-summer-road-to-perdition\/","title":{"rendered":"His summer road to perdition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the good fortune over the last couple of years to preview and comment on bits of James Bovard&#8217;s funny and politically astute memoir (so far untitled and still in progress).<\/p>\n<p>Bovard, OTOH, has had the misfortune to be on the receiving end of my perpetual whine, &#8220;So when are you finally going to <i>publish<\/i> the darned thing, Jim? Huh? Huh? When?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks as if the first &#8220;leak&#8221; is out. The <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> (of all unexpected pubs) has run Jim&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304259304576375430412285872.html?KEYWORDS=bovard\" target=\"_blank\">account of his slacker summer<\/a> on a slacker road crew. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the good fortune over the last couple of years to preview and comment on bits of James Bovard&#8217;s funny and politically astute memoir (so far untitled and still in progress). Bovard, OTOH, has had the misfortune to be on the receiving end of my perpetual whine, &#8220;So when are you finally going to publish the darned thing, Jim? Huh? Huh? When?&#8221; Well, it looks as if the first &#8220;leak&#8221; is out. The Wall Street Journal (of all unexpected pubs) has run Jim&#8217;s account of his slacker summer on a slacker road crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humor","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}