{"id":141,"date":"2004-03-03T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2004-03-03T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:51:00","slug":"the-opposite-of-fate-a-book-of-musings-by-amy-tan-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/03\/the-opposite-of-fate-a-book-of-musings-by-amy-tan-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan, 2003."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of pieces, most previously published, most autobiographical in one way or another. I like Tan&#8217;s writing a lot, and she can also be very funny (notably in the essay about singing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbottomremainders.com\/\">Rock Bottom Remainders<\/a>, which I had already read in the wonderful eponymous book, and her terrific commencement address at Simmons College). Especially insightful: &#8220;The Language of Discretion,&#8221; refuting the idea that language can be read as forming character (specifically the idea that &#8220;Chinese has no words for &#8216;yes&#8217; and &#8216;no'&#8221; and therefore Chinese people are &#8220;discreet and modest.&#8221; She captures the unease I felt, but couldn&#8217;t put into words, when reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2281647\">this story<\/a> about French humor. The last essay is about her struggles with misdiagnosed Lyme disease&#8211;very sad. I hope she is doing better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of pieces, most previously published, most autobiographical in one way or another. I like Tan&#8217;s writing a lot, and she can also be very funny (notably in the essay about singing for the Rock Bottom Remainders, which I had already read in the wonderful eponymous book, and her terrific commencement address at Simmons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}