{"id":1106,"date":"2005-08-31T22:56:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/31\/self-described-media-obscurity\/"},"modified":"2005-08-31T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T02:56:25","slug":"self-described-media-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/31\/self-described-media-obscurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Described Media Obscurity Gets Still More Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001518.html\">my fervent hopes<\/A> we might have heard the last of Paulo Coelho, but no such luck: <I>NYT<\/I> reporter Alan Riding is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/30\/books\/30coel.html?ex=1283054400&amp;en=71f4ec18eb123067&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">the latest witness<\/A> to Coelho&#8217;s constant moaning: &#8220;I am not in the United States what I am in France or Spain or Germany&#8230;I have never broken the barrier of the press. In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.&#8221; Riding&#8217;s headline suggests that Coelho&#8217;s &#8220;writing in a global language,&#8221; to which one might well respond: yeah, that of the lowest common denominator.<\/p>\n<p>As was the case with <i>Eleven Minutes<\/i> last year, I did actually open a copy of <a href='http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0060825219'><i>The Zahir<\/i><\/a> and try to read it, but this is pretty godawful stuff, folks. I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/003649.html\">I&#8217;d sooner finish John Twelve Hawks&#8217; <i>The Traveler<\/i><\/a> than read even one more chapter of Coelho&#8230;and I&#8217;d seriously consider picking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001646.html\">Lauren Slater&#8217;s short story collection<\/a> again, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my fervent hopes we might have heard the last of Paulo Coelho, but no such luck: NYT reporter Alan Riding is the latest witness to Coelho&#8217;s constant moaning: &#8220;I am not in the United States what I am in France or Spain or Germany&#8230;I have never broken the barrier of the press. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"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=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}