{"id":6526,"date":"2015-07-08T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2015-07-08T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:22:21","slug":"a-literary-guide-to-mma-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6526","title":{"rendered":"A Literary Guide to MMA Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kerry Howley\u2019s debut is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/9570432\/the-definitive-literary-guide-to-mixed-martial-arts\/\">riotously entertaining and piercingly perceptive<\/a> account of the contrasting lives and dreams of a pair of Iowa-based fighters whose battles in the \u2018Octagon\u2019 become the vehicle for a philosophical treatise on the nature of glory.&#8221; (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prufrocknews?mc_cid=055e06d3e4&#038;mc_eid=79bfbe6fe6\">Prufrock<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amofoto1\/5525330951\" title=\"MMA by Jorge Amo, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5251\/5525330951_c03c83ec19.jpg?resize=474%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" alt=\"MMA\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kerry Howley\u2019s debut is a riotously entertaining and piercingly perceptive account of the contrasting lives and dreams of a pair of Iowa-based fighters whose battles in the \u2018Octagon\u2019 become the vehicle for a philosophical treatise on the nature of glory.&#8221; (via Prufrock)<\/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":[7],"tags":[968,1078],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-fighting","tag-glory"],"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\/6526","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=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}