{"id":11510,"date":"2018-11-24T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2018-11-24T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T17:02:57","slug":"in-praise-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11510","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2018\/11\/thank_god_for_men\">Andr\u00e9e Seu Peterson has assembled a few thankful words for men.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best musical composers are men. The best art in our local Philadelphia Art Museum and Barnes Foundation is by men. The best writers are men. The best chefs are men. And to be honest, who wouldn\u2019t rather watch men\u2019s hockey than women\u2019s hockey? In other words, everything that lifts the dreariness of life is by and large a man\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Men cut to the chase. (Except William Faulkner, who was wordy.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We at Brandywine Books recognize the honesty in which this column was written and deny any hint of comic exaggeration.\u00a0 Bully for us!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, World offers their <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2018\/11\/beyond_platform_shoes\">books of 2018<\/a>, noting some changes in Christian publishing over the last several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9e Seu Peterson has assembled a few thankful words for men. The best musical composers are men. The best art in our local Philadelphia Art Museum and Barnes Foundation is by men. The best writers are men. The best chefs are men. And to be honest, who wouldn\u2019t rather watch men\u2019s hockey than women\u2019s hockey? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Praise of Men<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}