{"id":11983,"date":"2009-04-02T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/04\/02\/11983.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:50:25","slug":"book-report-gentlemen-of-the-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/04\/02\/book-report-gentlemen-of-the-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Gentlemen of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why it took me so long to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/delrey\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345501745\">Gentlemen of the Road<\/a>, Michael Chabon&#8217;s lightweight novel about Jews with Swords. I had (if I remember the circumstances correctly) purchased a copy for my Best Reader at last-but-one Yuletide, only to have her nab it off the library shelf in mid-December, thus depriving me of whatnottage. That disappointment, perhaps, led to a sort of resentment against the book&#8217;s very existence which led in turn to a reluctance to pick the thing up and read it. And, frankly, although I did quite like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/10\/03\/10634.html\">The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union<\/a>, I expected this book to be more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/12\/26\/10099.html\">The Final Solution<\/a>.\n<p>Anyway, I eventually pulled it off the overtall stack of books-we-own-that-I-keep-meaning-to-read-soon-now and read it, and it was fun. I don&#8217;t think there was much too it, but I had a good time, and there were some terrific lines and scenes. So that&#8217;s all right.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger reduces the height of the stack by one, albeit a slim one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18717,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/18717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}