{"id":1178,"date":"2017-08-14T18:47:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-12-15T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:10:27","slug":"books-ive-read-since-last-we-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Recent-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/25\/books\/review\/the-last-laugh-lynn-freed.html\">recently reviewed<\/a> the darkly comic novel &#8220;The Last Laugh  ,&#8221; by Lynn Freed, for the New York Times Book Review. Opa! (It&#8217;s set in Greece).<\/p>\n<p>-The Colin McEnroe Show, the great public radio show out of Connecticut, had me on for <a href=\"http:\/\/wnpr.org\/post\/trump-era-retrospective-six-months\">their retrospective<\/a> of the six-month-old Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p>-Various new organizations allow you to interact with refugees. What should we keep in mind when interacting with these folks? Like, do they want to be called &#8220;refugees,&#8221; or is that term distasteful to them? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/04\/style\/refugee-dinners.html?_r=0\">My article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-I recently reviewed the darkly comic novel &#8220;The Last Laugh ,&#8221; by Lynn Freed, for the New York Times Book Review. Opa! (It&#8217;s set in Greece). -The Colin McEnroe Show, the great public radio show out of Connecticut, had me on for their retrospective of the six-month-old Trump presidency. -Various new organizations allow you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}