{"id":8726,"date":"2025-04-06T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2025-04-06T05:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:15:55","slug":"book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=8726","title":{"rendered":"Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nybooks.com\">Timely review here.  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This quote from the book, though, about museums and memorials, was money:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I was surrounded by the specter of 10,000 people moving through the galleries in a manner I had witnessed elsewhere, in other exhibitions: examining, with wistful, beatific expressions, each artifact\u2026emblems of a shameful chapter which had, to them, closed; shaking their heads but ultimately marveling\u2014often with childlike fascination\u2014at how such a thing could have happened, when, amidst calls for it to never happen again, it is happening all the time everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shimoda, Brandon. <em>The Afterlife Is Letting Go<\/em>. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2024.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timely review here. This quote from the book, though, about museums and memorials, was money: I was surrounded by the specter of 10,000 people moving through the galleries in a manner I had witnessed elsewhere, in other exhibitions: examining, with wistful, beatific expressions, each artifact\u2026emblems of a shameful chapter which had, to them, closed; shaking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=8726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2gK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8727,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}