{"id":263,"date":"2007-11-09T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-11-09T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T03:28:00","slug":"little-disturbances-of-man-by-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/11\/little-disturbances-of-man-by-grace.html","title":{"rendered":"The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cool thing about Grace Paley&#8217;s short stories is how little introduction there is to them.  She plops you in the middle and lets you figure out who these people are and what they&#8217;re up to as you go along.  Sometimes when I finally ah-ha&#8217;d the scene I&#8217;d go back and read the beginning again, to fully appreciate it, but if you&#8217;re less anal about understanding every word than I am, it&#8217;s not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140075577\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Little Disturbances of Man<\/a> because I happened to see an article about Grace Paley&#8217;s recent death.  I&#8217;d never heard of her before but now that I have, I&#8217;m likely to pick up another of her short story collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cool thing about Grace Paley&#8217;s short stories is how little introduction there is to them. She plops you in the middle and lets you figure out who these people are and what they&#8217;re up to as you go along. Sometimes when I finally ah-ha&#8217;d the scene I&#8217;d go back and read the beginning again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}