{"id":11768,"date":"2012-07-31T06:55:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11768"},"modified":"2012-07-31T06:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:55:38","slug":"shades-of-chekhovs-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/shades-of-chekhovs-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Chekhov&#8217;s Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I borrowed the new Spenser book, the first written by Ace Atkins, from the library.<\/p>\n<p>Page one, Spenser is eating a donut:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/spenser1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/spenser1.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Page 1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Page twenty-three, powdered donut crumbs:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/spenser2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/spenser2.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Page 23\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That there&#8217;s the kind of tactile experience you don&#8217;t get from a Kindle.  Or a book you buy yourself, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chekhov%27s_gun\" target=\"_blank\">Chekhov&#8217;s gun explained<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I borrowed the new Spenser book, the first written by Ace Atkins, from the library. Page one, Spenser is eating a donut: Page twenty-three, powdered donut crumbs: That there&#8217;s the kind of tactile experience you don&#8217;t get from a Kindle. Or a book you buy yourself, for that matter. (Chekhov&#8217;s gun explained.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768","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=11768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}