{"id":264126,"date":"2008-08-21T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/08\/21\/npr-goes-to-europe-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:54","slug":"npr-goes-to-europe-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/08\/21\/npr-goes-to-europe-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Goes to Europe! Sort of . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be irrational, but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93745535&#38;ft=1&#38;f=1032\">Three Books . . .<\/a> column about doing the &#8220;Grand Tour&#8221; of Europe via literature just bugs me. Not the idea that &#8220;literature takes you places!&#8221; but the fact that the three books featured are <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Talented Mr. Ripley,<\/i> and <i>A Room with a View.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is the most &#8220;European&#8221; you can get? Two American authors and a fairly conventional Brit? Christ. Marc Acito&#8212;I&#8217;m more than willing to send you personal copies of European fiction if you really want to go on an &#8220;adventure.&#8221; And to think I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=1103\">praising NPR&#8217;s book coverage<\/a> not so very long ago . . . Thankfully Jessa Crispin has a review this week of Christopher Priest&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93691775\"><i>Inverted World<\/i><\/a> to help redeem the section. (A book that sounds fantastic, by the way.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be irrational, but this Three Books . . . column about doing the &#8220;Grand Tour&#8221; of Europe via literature just bugs me. Not the idea that &#8220;literature takes you places!&#8221; but the fact that the three books featured are Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and A Room with a View. This [&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":[14306,1836,5826,1646],"class_list":["post-264126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bad-reviews","tag-cwp","tag-npr","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264126","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=264126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325736,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264126\/revisions\/325736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}