{"id":10,"date":"2003-06-12T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-01-02T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T13:06:23","slug":"10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/12\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Printers Row Book Fair, Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Chicago, Heather and I spent a morning at the Printers [sic, and the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>, sponsor of the event, should know better!] Row Book Fair on, well, Printers&#8217; Row, in Chicago.  You can find the <em>Chicago Tribune&#8217;s<\/em> review <a href=\"http:\/\/metromix.chicagotribune.com\/news\/celebrity\/mmx-0306090181jun09.story\" target=\"new\">here<\/a> if you hurry.<\/p>\n<p>You want to hear my review?  Here it is:  <strong>What idiot would go used book shopping with 10,000 friends?<\/strong> (Please exclude current blogger and his <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweaving.blogspot.com\" target=\"new\">esteemed spouse<\/a> from your answer.)  You cannot adequately peruse and handle interesting books while actively and purposefully jostling nearby extras, guarding the wallet, and annoying Howard Dean pamphleteers by telling them, &#8220;I will vote only for a candidate who frequently affirms he served in Viet Nam&#8221; (which works best if you can somehow pronounce it as two words).<\/p>\n<p>However, when you&#8217;re in Chicago, do visit Printers&#8217; Row on Dearborn.  You will find a most exquisite shop of rare and fine editions.  If you&#8217;re like me, you won&#8217;t afford them, but they&#8217;re nice to see.  You&#8217;ll enjoy it much more if you think of it as a zoo instead of a book store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Chicago, Heather and I spent a morning at the Printers [sic, and the Chicago Tribune, sponsor of the event, should know better!] Row Book Fair on, well, Printers&#8217; Row, in Chicago. You can find the Chicago Tribune&#8217;s review here if you hurry. You want to hear my review? Here it is: What idiot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}