{"id":15338,"date":"2016-08-05T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/08\/05\/15338.html"},"modified":"2016-08-05T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T04:31:30","slug":"heavenly-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/08\/05\/heavenly-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Latest randomly chosen book from my unread shelves: Delany's 1979 memoir <cite>Heavenly Breakfast<\/cite>. Which, as I opened it, gave me enough deja vu that I think I actually did read it before. There's a slip of paper inside, dated June '95, a note from me to my father, wishing him a happy Father's Day; I don't know whether the book was a gift to him from me or whether he was just using the slip of paper as a bookmark.<\/p>\n<p>But the book is short, and I started reading or re-reading it, and it's one of those moments (I've had a few in recent months) where after weeks of reading stuff that hasn't grabbed me, there's a vividness and clarity to the prose and to the content; as if all the other non-recent writing I've been reading lately has been in dull gray, and this is a sparkly rainbow. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Something about the style and\/or the format is making me think of <cite>Times Square Red\/Times Square Blue<\/cite>, which I hadn't read last time I looked at <cite>Heavenly Breakfast<\/cite>. The casual recounting of personal incidents that illustrate ideas about the ways that people interact.<\/p>\n<p>I think it's also interacting nicely in my head with Panshin's &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/06\/11\/15294.html\">How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?<\/a>&rdquo;, which was written half a dozen years earlier (but set a few years later), and which I read for the first time a couple of months ago, and may have been the last item from my old-unread-books shelves that I got that &ldquo;wow, this is worth paying attention to&rdquo; feeling from.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest randomly chosen book from my unread shelves: Delany&#8217;s 1979 memoir Heavenly Breakfast. Which, as I opened it, gave me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-speculative-fiction","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}