{"id":254226,"date":"2007-08-10T20:05:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/10\/im-amazed-shocked-and-well-amazed\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:52","slug":"im-amazed-shocked-and-well-amazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/10\/im-amazed-shocked-and-well-amazed\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#39;m Amazed, Shocked, and Well Amazed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/nyrb.typepad.com\/classics\/2007\/08\/playing-in-peor.html\">A Different Stripe<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Num\u00e9ro, which bills itself as &#8220;the <span class=\"caps\">FREE<\/span> Peoria area complete entertainment guide,&#8221; is featuring Adolfo Bioy Casares&#8217;s <i>The Invention of Morel<\/i> as its August book club selection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew that Peoria had entertainment? Or a book club? Or a book club capable of picking an awesome book? Generally, I though Peoria was a poor man&#8217;s Bloomington-Normal, but whatever, any place that encourages its residents to read Bioy Casares is OK by my standards. <\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with this gem, here&#8217;s a brief description:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An escapee is marooned on a formerly inhabited island. He believes he&#8217;s alone until he spots the presence of a group of vacationers, dressed in resort clothing from another time. But try as he might, they just won&#8217;t take notice of him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a strange, compelling little book that resonates with all <i>Lost<\/i> fans . . . Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if this is what Jacob&#8217;s reading while rocking in his chair . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via A Different Stripe Num\u00e9ro, which bills itself as &#8220;the FREE Peoria area complete entertainment guide,&#8221; is featuring Adolfo Bioy Casares&#8217;s The Invention of Morel as its August book club selection. Who knew that Peoria had entertainment? Or a book club? Or a book club capable of picking an awesome book? Generally, I though Peoria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[3836,1516,2056,3846],"class_list":["post-254226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bioy-casares","tag-lost","tag-nyrb","tag-peoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363516,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254226\/revisions\/363516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}