{"id":1252,"date":"2008-10-29T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:54:13","slug":"the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian-by-sherman-alexie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/10\/29\/the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian-by-sherman-alexie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherman Alexie was on The Colbert Report last night, where he managed to be witty, intelligent, gracious and generally stupendous in the face of Stephen Colbert&#8217;s buffoonish mockery. Alexie&#8217;s repartee even drove Colbert to a stand-still, where he just shook his head at Alexie, smiled and ended the interview. Given Alexie&#8217;s masterful performance, I am interested to see if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Absolutely-True-Diary-Part-Time-Indian\/dp\/0316013684\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1225325081&amp;sr=8-1\">his book<\/a> reflects the same keen mind and incisive word use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherman Alexie was on The Colbert Report last night, where he managed to be witty, intelligent, gracious and generally stupendous in the face of Stephen Colbert&#8217;s buffoonish mockery. Alexie&#8217;s repartee even drove Colbert to a stand-still, where he just shook his head at Alexie, smiled and ended the interview. Given Alexie&#8217;s masterful performance, I am&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/10\/29\/the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian-by-sherman-alexie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[672],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-i-actually-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}