{"id":18258,"date":"2016-05-30T00:37:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=18258"},"modified":"2016-06-03T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:00:56","slug":"jonathan-safran-foer-maybe-it-was-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/05\/30\/jonathan-safran-foer-maybe-it-was-the-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Safran Foer: “Maybe It Was the Distance”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cMaybe It Was the Distance\u201d<\/strong><\/span> \r\nby Jonathan Safran Foer<\/span>\r\nOriginally published in the June 6 & 13, 2016 issue of The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/span>\r\nClick here\u00a0<\/a>to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker website.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"June<\/a>Not being the biggest Jonathan Safran Foer fan, I’m not looking forward to this particular story in this year’s Fiction Issue (nor was I looking forward to the story he had in last year’s<\/em> fiction issue — sheesh). It’s not even as short as his have been in year’s past. Nevertheless, I’m committed to reading all four stories in the magazine, so!<\/p>\n
I look forward to your thoughts, as always!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week\u2019s New Yorker is the annual fiction issue, featuring Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Maybe It Was the Distance.” Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[521,94],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-18258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jonathan-safran-foer","category-new-yorker-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Foer-Maybe-It-Was-the-Distance.jpg?fit=320%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4Ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18344,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258\/revisions\/18344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18258"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}