{"id":4121,"date":"2014-03-11T18:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/In-the-Margin\/An-Addiction-and-an-Award\/ba-p\/12496"},"modified":"2014-03-11T18:58:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T18:58:33","slug":"an-addiction-and-an-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/11\/an-addiction-and-an-award\/","title":{"rendered":"An Addiction and an Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span>Because I am, essentially, a reading addict, my impulse is simply to rip right through a book, fiction or nonfiction, just for the animal pleasure of it. But sad experience has shown that if I abandon myself in this way, I will finish the book without being able to say much except: Boy was that ever good, you should read it.&#8221; &#8212; <em>BNR columnist Katherine A. Powers, this year&#8217;s recipient of the National Book Critic&#8217;s Circle&#8217;s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Because I am, essentially, a reading addict, my impulse is simply to rip right through a book, fiction or nonfiction, just for the animal pleasure of it. But sad experience has shown that if I abandon myself in this way, I will finish the book without&#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-4121","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\/4121"}],"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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}