{"id":189982,"date":"2010-01-19T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/19\/bad-day-for-lowbrow-literature\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:10:00","slug":"bad-day-for-lowbrow-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/19\/bad-day-for-lowbrow-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day for Lowbrow Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2010\/01\/mystery_novelis.html\">Robert B. Parker<\/a>, author of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Spencer<\/span> detective novels, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/celebrity\/articles\/2010\/01\/19\/love_story_author_erich_segal_dies_aged_72\/\">Erich Segal<\/a>, author of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Love Story<\/span> have both died.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to imply that they were bad authors, I rather enjoyed reading the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Spencer<\/span> books, and I have never read Segal, and so cannot comment on his work at all, but rather I am saying that their books were decidedly mass market, as opposed to the more erudite stuff that you see reviewed in gushing tones on NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert B. Parker, author of the Spencer detective novels, and Erich Segal, author of Love Story have both died. I don&#8217;t mean to imply that they were bad authors, I rather enjoyed reading the Spencer books, and I have never read Segal, and so cannot comment on his work at all, but rather I am &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}