{"id":415,"date":"2007-07-07T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2007-07-07T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T16:28:47","slug":"quote-from-chabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Quote from Chabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Michael Chabon&#8217;s <u>The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union<\/u> and loving it. So you can see how the guy writes, here&#8217;s the backstory of some of the characters, WWII refugees resettled in the imaginary Jewish homeland in Alaska:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the heels of Jews from Germany and Austria, the Shemets family was dumped with their fellow Galitzers at Camp Slattery, in a muskeg swamp ten miles from the hard-bitten, half-decrepit town of Sitka&#8230; In drafty, tin-roofed huts and barracks, they underwent six months of intensive acclimatization by a crack team of fifteen billion mosquitoes working under contract with the U.S. Interior Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Michael Chabon&#8217;s The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union and loving it. So you can see how the guy writes, here&#8217;s the backstory of some of the characters, WWII refugees resettled in the imaginary Jewish homeland in Alaska: On the heels of Jews from Germany and Austria, the Shemets family was dumped with their fellow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote from Chabon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}