{"id":269806,"date":"2009-03-30T13:59:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/03\/30\/sold\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:11","slug":"sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/03\/30\/sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember ever buying a book based on a blurb, but even if I wasn&#8217;t already a Thomas Bernhard fan, I&#8217;d buy his <em>Meine Preise<\/em> immediately if this blurb were on the cover:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The asshole Thomas Bernhard&#8212;and I say this even though I dislike speaking ill of the dead&#8212;the asshole Thomas Bernhard, it&#8217;s fairly certain to say, only wrote a single good book. This book appears only now, even though he already wrote it in 1980, and it demonstrates what an asshole he was.&#8221;&#8212;Maxim Biller, <em>Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More information about the review&#8212;and the book itself&#8212;can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200903c.htm#li4\">Literary Saloon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember ever buying a book based on a blurb, but even if I wasn&#8217;t already a Thomas Bernhard fan, I&#8217;d buy his Meine Preise immediately if this blurb were on the cover: &#8220;The asshole Thomas Bernhard&#8212;and I say this even though I dislike speaking ill of the dead&#8212;the asshole Thomas Bernhard, it&#8217;s fairly [&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":[1836,21656,2246,1646,2426],"class_list":["post-269806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-entertaining-blurbs","tag-literary-saloon","tag-review","tag-thomas-bernhard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269806","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=269806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324196,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269806\/revisions\/324196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}