{"id":228,"date":"2015-03-26T03:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviews.wheelerc.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2015-03-26T03:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:39:05","slug":"the-broom-of-the-system-by-david-foster-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/2015\/03\/26\/the-broom-of-the-system-by-david-foster-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly a valiant and well-written first attempt, The Broom of the System falls short. It&#8217;s not a classic, it&#8217;s not a great, but it&#8217;s more or less enjoyable. It is, partially, a story about stories. Also, the use of different forms of media forms (transcripts, journal entries, etc.) is a welcome touch that has not, unfortunately, caught on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1237561599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly a valiant and well-written first attempt, The Broom of the System falls short. It&#8217;s not a classic, it&#8217;s not a great, but it&#8217;s more or less enjoyable. It is, partially, a story about stories. Also, the use of different forms of media forms (transcripts, journal entries, etc.) is a welcome touch that has not, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[37,53],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","tag-mediocre","tag-three-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}