{"id":409,"date":"2016-12-06T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=409"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T22:43:03","slug":"best-reading-of-the-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2016\/12\/06\/best-reading-of-the-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Reading of the Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the David Foster Wallace piece\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Consider the Lobster.<\/span> \u00a0I could dedicate the rest of my life to the art of writing and get no where close to his level. \u00a0Masking the actual purpose of the text behind a festival review is an amazing feat and I fully appreciated it. \u00a0Having not done my research on the author (which I have to note is contrary to what my professor taught us all to do) benefited me in a subtle way. \u00a0I noticed the footnotes of the piece hinted at an individual who without a doubt had a wonderful way with prose but struggled with the behavior of people. \u00a0 Above the fray it&#8217;s about the mistreatment\u00a0of the lobster and this festival but in the footnotes the author is exposing tidbits of his beliefs as he observes people all while hinting at his own internal struggles. \u00a0His piece evoked so much emotion and I was sorry to hear how his life came to an end. \u00a0Mr. Wallace was so meticulous with his writing though\u00a0it never obscured him seeking an emotional response from the reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the David Foster Wallace piece\u00a0Consider the Lobster. \u00a0I could dedicate the rest of my life to the art of writing and get no where close to his level. \u00a0Masking the actual purpose of the text behind a festival review is an amazing feat and I fully appreciated it. \u00a0Having not done my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}