{"id":3511,"date":"2013-12-18T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Discover-Great-New-Writers\/A-Peruvian-Investor-Walks-into-a-Packard-Plant-A-Guest-Post-by\/ba-p\/11981"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:49:46","slug":"a-peruvian-investor-walks-into-a-packard-plant-a-guest-post-by-mark-binelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/a-peruvian-investor-walks-into-a-packard-plant-a-guest-post-by-mark-binelli\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peruvian Investor Walks into a Packard Plant: A Guest Post by Mark Binelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Place is so much more than topography or social fault lines, political history and census data.&nbsp; Capturing capital-P <em>place<\/em> &ndash; the soul, the machine, the people, the ethos thrumming just below the surface &ndash; is one of the most challenging aspects of the writer&rsquo;s task.&nbsp; But when it comes alive through vital, zig-zagging prose like Mark Binelli&rsquo;s in <strong><em>Detroit City is the Place to Be<\/em><\/strong> (a Holiday 2012 Discover pick, now available in paperback, with a new afterward by the author), the results are unforgettable.&nbsp; Because can&#8217;t get enough of Binelli&#8217;s wry reportage, he generously sent along this guest post for the Discover blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Place is so much more than topography or social fault lines, political history and census data.&nbsp; Capturing capital-P place &ndash; the soul, the machine, the people, the ethos thrumming just below the surface &ndash; is one of the most challenging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}