{"id":2997,"date":"2012-08-27T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:48","slug":"against-acknowledgments-at-the-end-of-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/27\/against-acknowledgments-at-the-end-of-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Acknowledgments at the End of Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2012\/08\/against-acknowledgments.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/acknowledgements_opt.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The acknowledgments page will conclude with the sort of crowd-pandering favored by stumping politicians\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith expressions of awe and humility for the author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supportive parents, brilliant children, and devoted spouse. Apparently having dedicated the book to these same people was insufficient as a gesture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;color: #000000;background-color: #ffffff;text-align: left;text-decoration: none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2012\/08\/against-acknowledgments.html\">Against Acknowledgments at the End of Novels : The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The acknowledgments page will conclude with the sort of crowd-pandering favored by stumping politicians\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith expressions of awe and humility for the author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supportive parents, brilliant children, and devoted spouse. Apparently having dedicated the book to these same people was insufficient as a gesture.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[448,692,693],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-acknowledgements","tag-against","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10017,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}