{"id":2196,"date":"2009-11-30T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:21:00","slug":"americas-idea-of-a-good-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/americas-idea-of-a-good-time\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICA&#8217;S IDEA OF A GOOD TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s quite a comprehensive review of We English by Michael Cockerham over on his blog <a title=\"We English review on Blue Filter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluefilter.co.uk\/2009\/10\/we-english-simon-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Filter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Michael for reminding me of <a title=\"Kate Schermerhorn's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kspix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Schermerhorn<\/a>&#8216;s fantastic book <a title=\"America's Idea of a Good Time on amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Americas-Idea-Good-Time-Schermerhorn\/dp\/1899235485\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Idea of a Good Time<\/a> (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001), which presents an affectionate take on Americans at play to expose the surreal underbelly of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2284\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Picture-15.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" width=\"650\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Picture-15.png 905w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Picture-15-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s quite a comprehensive review of We English by Michael Cockerham over on his blog Blue Filter. Thanks Michael for reminding me of Kate Schermerhorn&#8216;s fantastic book America&#8217;s Idea of a Good Time (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001), which presents an affectionate take on Americans at play to expose the surreal underbelly of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}