{"id":12075,"date":"2012-10-21T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12075"},"modified":"2012-10-21T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T16:30:42","slug":"brian-j-noggle-literary-hipster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/brian-j-noggle-literary-hipster\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian J. Noggle, Literary Hipster"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was having an imaginary conversation the other day, and I was slightly thunderstruck to discover something disquieting about me. Not that I spend a lot of time alone, and I run through a number of imaginary conversations in my head–I have known that about myself for some time. But something more sinister<\/em>. Well, maybe not sinister<\/em>, but certainly some adjective that needs to be italicized<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I was talking about classic British literature, and I was naming some my favorite books from various authors, and none of the books were widely known or collegiately studied classics.<\/p>\n

\nCharles Dickens?<\/strong>
\nCricket on the Hearth<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thomas Hardy?<\/strong>
\nUnder a Greenwood Tree<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rudyard Kipling?<\/strong>
\nPuck of Pook’s Hill<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And suddenly, in my head, I’ve got horn-rimmed glasses on (with plain glass, natch), a striped sweater, maybe a scarf, and some ironic headgear (maybe a “contemporary” fedora (::spit::)), and I’m talking about how everyone loves A Tale of Two Cities<\/em> or Kim<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m a literary hipster. Which is almost as bad as an academic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was having an imaginary conversation the other day, and I was slightly thunderstruck to discover something disquieting about me. Not that I spend a lot of time alone, and I run through a number of imaginary conversations in my head–I have known that about myself for some time. But something more sinister. Well, maybe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075","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=12075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}