{"id":18299,"date":"2010-05-07T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T02:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18299"},"modified":"2015-01-30T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T19:53:49","slug":"in-which-i-am-a-big-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/07\/in-which-i-am-a-big-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Am &#8220;A Big Disappointment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Pettus of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography has encountered my zombie collection <a href=\"http:\/\/store.pspublishing.co.uk\/acatalog\/What_Will_Come_After_HC.html\"><i>What Will Come After<\/i><\/a>, and thought it rotten! <\/p>\n<p>And since I believe in total disclosure, and that there&#8217;s no such thing as a bad review, I&#8217;m here to tell you that not only did he feel it was&#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>a story collection that gets very tedious very fast<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;and that I exasperated him so much he was moved to say&#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> J-sus, ask me how ready I am for that literary trend to be over!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;but that he also dubbed the book&#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A big disappointment from the normally great PS Publishing<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry I let you down, Pete!<\/p>\n<p>To read  the complete review, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cclapcenter.com\/2010\/05\/your_micro-review_roundup_7_ma.html\">Chicago Center for Literature and Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Pettus of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography has encountered my zombie collection What Will Come After, and thought it rotten! And since I believe in total disclosure, and that there&#8217;s no such thing as a bad review, I&#8217;m here to tell you that not only did he feel it was&#8212; a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,92],"class_list":["post-18299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18300,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions\/18300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}