{"id":923,"date":"2006-03-16T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/read-this-jack-fish\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T21:52:26","slug":"read-this-jack-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/read-this-jack-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: Jack Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jackfish.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/jackfish.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>So I&#8217;ve been dipping back into J Milligan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1569474168\"><i>Jack Fish<\/i><\/a>, in anticipation of his appearance tonight at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coliseumbooks.com\">Coliseum Books<\/a>, and it&#8217;s reminding me all over again why I like it so much. Sure, a lot of it has to do with its New York-specific, and for that matter outer-borough-specific, humor, but saying it&#8217;s &#8220;just a New York book&#8221; would be like saying <i>The Brother From Another Planet<\/i> is &#8220;just a New York movie.&#8221; And, yeah, I chose that example quite deliberately. Here&#8217;s the thing: I love science fiction that stays true to its central conceits, but doesn&#8217;t feel the constant need to take itself so damn seriously. So I dig the Pohl &#038; Kornbluth collaborations, I dig Robert Sheckley and Frederic Brown, and now I&#8217;m digging J Milligan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been dipping back into J Milligan&#8217;s Jack Fish, in anticipation of his appearance tonight at Coliseum Books, and it&#8217;s reminding me all over again why I like it so much. Sure, a lot of it has to do with its New York-specific, and for that matter outer-borough-specific, humor, but saying it&#8217;s &#8220;just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}