{"id":4777,"date":"2010-09-25T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2010-09-26T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T16:38:59","slug":"lorre-moore-reviews-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/09\/25\/lorre-moore-reviews-the-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorrie Moore reviews &#8216;The Wire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was late to David Simon&#8217;s &#8216;The Wire.&#8217;\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have cable TV.\u00a0 However, I am hooked on this gritty TV (and now DVD) series about life, death, crime, honor, and corruption in Baltimore. My wife and I have now seen four out of the five seasons of the show.  We borrow the DVDs for a season from our public library and then watch all of the episodes over a one-week period.  Exhausting and exhilarating.<\/p>\n<p>In the 14 October 2010 issue of the New York Review of Books, Lorrie Moore writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/oct\/14\/life-wire\/?pagination=false\" target=\"_blank\">In the Life of &#8216;The Wire&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article and then borrow the first season from your local library or from NetFlix.<\/p>\n<p>Note: After a certain (or uncertain) length of time, NYRB articles disappear behind a subscriber pay-wall.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was late to David Simon&#8217;s &#8216;The Wire.&#8217;\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have cable TV.\u00a0 However, I am hooked on this gritty TV (and now DVD) series about life, death, crime, honor, and corruption in Baltimore. My wife and I have now seen four out of the five seasons of the show. We borrow the DVDs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}