{"id":4257,"date":"2011-05-14T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2011-05-14T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T00:01:18","slug":"mamet-in-full-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4257","title":{"rendered":"Mamet in Full Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=brandbooks-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=1595230769\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;float:left;margin:8px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> &#8220;The left flattens people, reduces people to financial interests. Dave\u2019s an artist. He knew people are deeper than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ferguson has a powerful article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/converting-mamet_561048.html?nopager=1\">political conversion of the strong playwright David Mamet.<\/a> Of note is the fact that one of the books that blew his mind was Chamber&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0895267896\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=brandbooks-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=0895267896\">Witness<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0895267896&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>. \u201cThis book will change your life,\u201d Jon Voight told him, and he was right.<\/p>\n<p>Mamet is stirring the pot on Broadway and in Hollywood with a new book of essays, <i>The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture<\/i>. I&#8217;ll bet it&#8217;s worthy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The left flattens people, reduces people to financial interests. Dave\u2019s an artist. He knew people are deeper than that.&#8221; Andrew Ferguson has a powerful article on the political conversion of the strong playwright David Mamet. Of note is the fact that one of the books that blew his mind was Chamber&#8217;s Witness. \u201cThis book will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mamet in Full Bloom<\/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":[2],"tags":[681],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-david-mamet"],"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\/4257","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=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}