{"id":444,"date":"2011-03-02T05:24:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:29","slug":"sleight-of-tongue-an-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/author-novelist\/sleight-of-tongue-an-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleight of Tongue, an essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was written in December, 1991, but I think it is just as appropriate, maybe more so, now&#8230;or, at least, maybe it shows my consummate discouragement of Americans and America even then.&nbsp; What most disturbs me is that this was the direction twenty years ago, and, despite all my efforts to the contrary, this malaise has become the standard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SleightOfTongue_1991_2011.pdf\">SleightOfTongue_1991_2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written in December, 1991, but I think it is just as appropriate, maybe more so, now&#8230;or, at least, maybe it shows my consummate discouragement of Americans and America even then.&nbsp; What most disturbs me is that this was the direction twenty years ago, and, despite all my efforts to the contrary, this malaise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}