{"id":128,"date":"2008-03-26T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/my-review-great-review\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:54:30","slug":"my-review-great-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/my-review-great-review\/","title":{"rendered":"My Review:  Great Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/theoryofice.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"yes, that's right, just \" target=\"_blank\">e<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theoryofice.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/monday-review-other-and-self.html\" title=\"I wish I said that.\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of Dave Bidini&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/0771014589\/ref=s9_asin_image_2_k2a_c2-f9_serq_rfc_fhccbeg_g1?pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=0MBVD6KV7P9RQJCH1KK1&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=292859501&amp;pf_rd_i=915398\" title=\"Tropic of Hockey\" target=\"_blank\">Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems kind of silly to review a review &#8211; how many layers of abstraction can people tolerate, after all &#8211; so suffice to say that e managed to put her virtual finger, very eloquently, on an interesting feature of Dave Bidini&#8217;s writing.  The type of thing she&#8217;s talking about in her review &#8211; a fundamental ambivalence about the subject material that lies at root of Bidini&#8217;s relation to his subject &#8211; is exactly the notion that I had wanted to explore in a review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Around-World-57-2-Gigs\/dp\/0771014651\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206552352&amp;sr=8-1\" title=\"Link goes to amazon.ca book page\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Around the World in 57 1\/2 Gigs<\/em><\/a> &#8211; but which (on account of my laziness and lack of facility with the English language) I have yet to produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I highly recommend e&#8216;s review of Dave Bidini&#8217;s Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places.<\/p>\n<p>It seems kind of silly to review a review &#8211; how many layers of abstraction can people tolerate, after all &#8211; so suffice to say that e managed to put her virtual finger, very eloquently, on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,117],"tags":[153,155,156,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}