{"id":5818,"date":"2014-07-30T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2014-08-10T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:55:17","slug":"call-me-voicemael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/30\/call-me-voicemael\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Voicemael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2014\/07\/call-me-ishmael-the-phenomenon-revolutionizing-how.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Paste<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Call Me Ishmael: The Phenomenon Revolutionizing How We Talk About Books<\/h1>\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<a class=\"ovr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/writers?name=emelia+fredlick\" target=\"_blank\">Emelia Fredlick<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pastemagazine.com\/www\/articles\/1callmeishmaelmain.png?635430528532078063\" alt=\"Call Me Ishmael: The Phenomenon Revolutionizing How We Talk About Books\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall me Ishmael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the most recognizable opening sentences in literature (right up there with \u201cevery unhappy family is unhappy in its own way\u201d and \u201cit was the best of times, it was the worst of times\u201d). And now, the iconic phrase has gained a new life as a multimedia phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #00c2e8;\" href=\"http:\/\/callmeishmael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Call Me Ishmael<\/a>\u00a0celebrates the power of literature by giving a person the chance to literally \u201ccall Ishmael\u201d and share a story about how a book impacted their life. Many calls are then transcribed and posted on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00c2e8;\" href=\"http:\/\/callmeishmael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">callmeishmael.com<\/a>, becoming tales that go far beyond traditional book reviews. Titles featured range from\u00a0<i>The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife<\/i>\u00a0to\u00a0<i>Pajama Time<\/i>, from\u00a0<i>Maus<\/i>\u00a0to\u00a0<i>The Catcher in the Rye<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The stories people share are funny, sad, poignant and deeply human, which creator Logan Smalley says is the point. He calls the resulting narrative \u201can enhanced, evolved and beautiful picture of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2014\/07\/call-me-ishmael-the-phenomenon-revolutionizing-how.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at PASTE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Paste Call Me Ishmael: The Phenomenon Revolutionizing How We Talk About Books By\u00a0Emelia Fredlick \u201cCall me Ishmael.\u201d It\u2019s one of the most recognizable opening sentences in literature (right up there with \u201cevery unhappy family is unhappy in its own way\u201d and \u201cit was the best of times, it was the worst of times\u201d). And [&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-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","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=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}