{"id":1952,"date":"2011-09-14T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2011-09-14T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:12:06","slug":"they-really-know-how-to-throw-a-party-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/they-really-know-how-to-throw-a-party-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"They really know how to throw a party in Chicago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my kind of performance art, from this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/programs\/event\/615\n\">Printer&#8217;s Ball<\/a>. Got pictures, anybody?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Busted Books: The Great Soaking. Performance by Davis Schneiderman. Attendees are invited to use a artisan-constructed dunk tank to soak either a book or a Kindle\u2014depending upon the dunker\u2019s feelings regarding the printed word and e-readers. With this simple choice, this physical act, readers can finally stop theorizing about the future of the book and do something about it.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my kind of performance art, from this year&#8217;s Printer&#8217;s Ball. Got pictures, anybody? Busted Books: The Great Soaking. Performance by Davis Schneiderman. Attendees are invited to use a artisan-constructed dunk tank to soak either a book or a Kindle\u2014depending upon the dunker\u2019s feelings regarding the printed word and e-readers. With this simple choice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,58,96],"tags":[43,437,42,214,436],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-reading","category-future-of-publishing","category-random-thoughts","tag-books","tag-dunk-tanks","tag-ereaders","tag-humor","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}