{"id":3392,"date":"2012-05-17T04:56:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/a-century-of-cheever\/"},"modified":"2012-05-16T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:24:55","slug":"a-century-of-cheever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/17\/a-century-of-cheever\/","title":{"rendered":"A Century Of Cheever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/a-toast-john-cheever-100th-birthday-article-1.1075778\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>A toast to John Cheever on his 100th birthday<\/h1>\n<p><em>The master of the short story is remembered with a reissue of his classic tales and tribute events<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Alexander%20Nazaryan\" target=\"_blank\">ALEXANDER NAZARYAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.1075777.1336672889!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_635\/image.jpg\" alt=\" \tAuthor John Cheever *** Local Caption *** Author John Cheever \" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 8px; font-weight: bold; display: block; font: normal normal normal 8px\/normal Arial; color: #999999; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 0px\">SIDNEY FIELDS\/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/h4>\n<p>Long before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Don+Draper\" target=\"_blank\">Don Draper<\/a>, there was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/John+Cheever\" target=\"_blank\">John Cheever<\/a>. The master of the American short story was the original purveyor of midcentury mystique, especially its darker facets.<\/p>\n<p>The endless drinking, ever-present cigarettes, infidelities, secrets of suburban life and anxiety regarding America\u2019s place in the postwar world \u2014 they\u2019re all in the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u201cStories of John Cheever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That book is getting an updated edition from Random House come May 27, on what would have been Cheever\u2019s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/a-toast-john-cheever-100th-birthday-article-1.1075778\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Daily News A toast to John Cheever on his 100th birthday The master of the short story is remembered with a reissue of his classic tales and tribute events BY\u00a0ALEXANDER NAZARYAN SIDNEY FIELDS\/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Long before\u00a0Don Draper, there was\u00a0John Cheever. The master of the American short story was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}