{"id":1808,"date":"2007-12-24T23:03:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T05:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2007-12-24T23:04:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T05:52:44","slug":"its-a-fable-it-must-be-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Fable, It Must Be Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a filthy book in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not unusual. I get a lot of filfthy stuff in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly for journalistic purposes, mind you.<\/p>\n<p>But this one was different.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, it was sent to me at the Jewish Journal.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\n<p>The book is called The Transformations: A Tale Of Modern Sin by Dex Quire.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a paperback and light.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;ve gone out to photograph things at night, I&#8217;ve stuck it in the back of my jeans and while waiting around for celebrities, I&#8217;ve read a few chapters.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is filthy. It&#8217;s obsessed with sex. It&#8217;s about a man who wants a bigger nob, so he buys some ointment, rubs it on and turns into a donkey.<\/p>\n<p>So I get home from digesting a few chapters and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transformations-Modern-Apuleius-Golden-updated\/dp\/B0010XS3IC\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198130920&amp;sr=8-1\">Google the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out to be an ancient fable updated. So then I realized it was art, not filth.<\/p>\n<p>Just like my blogging.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a filthy book in the mail. That&#8217;s not unusual. I get a lot of filfthy stuff in the mail. Strictly for journalistic purposes, mind you. But this one was different. To begin with, it was sent to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1808\">Continue reading <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}