{"id":290,"date":"2005-11-27T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=290"},"modified":"2005-11-27T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T14:34:39","slug":"oooks-on-a-roll-nova-scotia-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/oooks-on-a-roll-nova-scotia-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Oook&#039;s on a roll: Nova Scotia Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-images\/novascotiagothic.jpg?w=584\" alt='Oook and family' style=\"float:right;margin:0;\" \/><br \/>\nCatching up on my oook-learning, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/mt\/archives\/000179.html\">this little doorway<\/a> into a secret garden where the inside is much larger than the outside.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Blackmer&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/nsfaces\/nsfaces.html\">Nova Scotia Faces<\/a><\/em> collection is a marvelous primer in close observation and the delicately timed articulation of commentary. If one wants to teach close reading and distinguish that art from the deadening habit of paraphrase, Hugh&#8217;s work here would be a great place to go.<\/p>\n<p>He says he&#8217;s in no hurry with this project, but as one of the World&#8217;s Most Impatient Men I hope he won&#8217;t dawdle too long in his splendid New England otium.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to be greedy or gluttonous. No, that&#8217;s wrong: they&#8217;re exactly what I mean to be. More please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on my oook-learning, I found this little doorway into a secret garden where the inside is much larger than the outside. Hugh Blackmer&#8217;s Nova Scotia Faces collection is a marvelous primer in close observation and the delicately timed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/oooks-on-a-roll-nova-scotia-faces\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-4G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}