{"id":3172,"date":"2010-02-01T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2010-02-01T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:48:20","slug":"repostnot-fishyjustice-to-j-d-salinger-the-new-york-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/01\/repostnot-fishyjustice-to-j-d-salinger-the-new-york-review-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Not Fishy:Justice to J.D. Salinger &#8211; The New York Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;At least you know there won&#8217;t be any goddam ulterior motives in this madhouse,&#8221; Zooey tells Franny. &#8220;Whatever we are, we&#8217;re not fishy, buddy.&#8221; &#8220;Close on the heels of kindness, originality is one of the most thrilling things in the world, also the most rare!&#8221; Seymour writes in &#8220;Hapworth.&#8221; What is thrilling about that sentence is, of course, the order in which kindness and originality are put. <strong>And what makes reading Salinger such a consistently bracing experience is our sense of always being in the presence of something that\u2014whatever it is\u2014isn&#8217;t fishy.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/14272\">Justice to J.D. Salinger &#8211; The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At least you know there won&#8217;t be any goddam ulterior motives in this madhouse,&#8221; Zooey tells Franny. &#8220;Whatever we are, we&#8217;re not fishy, buddy.&#8221; &#8220;Close on the heels of kindness, originality is one of the most thrilling things in the world, also the most rare!&#8221; Seymour writes in &#8220;Hapworth.&#8221; What is thrilling about that sentence &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/01\/repostnot-fishyjustice-to-j-d-salinger-the-new-york-review-of-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Not Fishy:Justice to J.D. Salinger &#8211; The New York Review of Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}