{"id":28145,"date":"2015-10-05T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28145"},"modified":"2015-10-11T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:41:54","slug":"qotd-the-value-scale-of-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/qotd-the-value-scale-of-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The value scale of literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The lowest forms of literature are, in descending order: pornography, the staff recommendations at the Tribeca Barnes &#038; Noble, diet\/fitness books, celebrity cookbooks, books of poetry written by pop stars, and, at the bottom of this unsavory slag heap, political memoirs, which have all of the narrative sophistication of pornography with none of the enjoyable bits.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin D. Williamson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/389608\/plague-memoirs-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Plague of Memoirs: A courageously awesome American story of awesomely American courage&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2014-10-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lowest forms of literature are, in descending order: pornography, the staff recommendations at the Tribeca Barnes &#038; Noble, diet\/fitness books, celebrity cookbooks, books of poetry written by pop stars, and, at the bottom of this unsavory slag heap, political memoirs, which have all of the narrative sophistication of pornography with none of the enjoyable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-quotations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7jX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28147,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145\/revisions\/28147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}