{"id":538,"date":"2010-03-26T23:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/26\/between-the-lines-interview\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:11:59","slug":"between-the-lines-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/26\/between-the-lines-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Interview Rounds (&#038; a New Book Blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/getting-right-with-tao.png\" align=\"left\" \/>I did <a href=\"http:\/\/jkneilson.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/26\/getting-right-with-ron\/\">an interview for <i>Between the Lines<\/i><\/a> recently to promote my new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/wordpress\/tao-te-ching\"><i>Getting Right with Tao<\/i><\/a>; Kevin Neilson&#8217;s insightful questions gave me an opportunity to revisit the philosophical dimensions of my pragmatic mindset, and to recall my fondness for Richard Rorty and Robert Anton Wilson&#8212;I&#8217;ve led a rich and colorful life of the mind, I guess you could say&#8212;and I even got to toss in my favorite Harold Bloom quote <i>and<\/i> a link to a Brave Combo video. So that was time well spent, in my opinion&#8212;I hope you&#8217;ll agree after you read the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin just started a new literary blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/interpolations.wordpress.com\/\"><i>Interpolations<\/i><\/a> last week; already he&#8217;s set down some thoughts on David Mitchell, Sherwood Anderson, and Marilynne Robinson. You might want to keep an eye on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did an interview for Between the Lines recently to promote my new book, Getting Right with Tao; Kevin Neilson&#8217;s insightful questions gave me an opportunity to revisit the philosophical dimensions of my pragmatic mindset, and to recall my fondness for Richard Rorty and Robert Anton Wilson&#8212;I&#8217;ve led a rich and colorful life of 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\/538"}],"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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}