{"id":1060,"date":"2005-09-23T23:57:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T03:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/23\/themes-so-far\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T03:57:59","slug":"themes-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/23\/themes-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes So Far: Birds, Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Emily Gordon: <\/b>Tomorrow morning, more about Chang-Rae Lee, Lorrie &#8220;American Idol&#8221; Moore, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, and Star Question Girl of the Night. These themes have emerged: birds (my glass bird earrings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catbirdnyc.com\/index.html\">Catbird<\/a>, <i>Birds of America<\/i>, &#8220;My Bird Problem,&#8221; a lot of birds and undoubtedly some blokes sighing over Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s fuckable shame spiral), and Gates, as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/?050228ta_talk_schjeldahl\">Christo and  Jeanne-Claude<\/a>. As my astute friend Tiffany pointed out at <i>Zadie and Jonathan Go to White Castle<\/i>, the New Yorker Festival bags, resplendently orange for fall, look just like old Central Park sculptures retooled into handy squares. And then Franzen mentioned those very Gates in his<a href=\"http:\/\/emdashes.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/jonathans-are-illuminated-birdy.html\"> essay<\/a>! Plus birds! It was a night full of serendipity, especially since it turns out that Lorrie Moore lives on my sister&#8217;s street. And my sister&#8217;s house is covered in orange trim. Gates orange. Now where&#8217;s Jonathan &#8220;Saffron&#8221; Foer to complete the picture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Gordon: Tomorrow morning, more about Chang-Rae Lee, Lorrie &#8220;American Idol&#8221; Moore, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, and Star Question Girl of the Night. These themes have emerged: birds (my glass bird earrings from Catbird, Birds of America, &#8220;My Bird Problem,&#8221; a lot of birds and undoubtedly some blokes sighing over Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s fuckable shame spiral), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}