{"id":20,"date":"2019-06-13T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2019-06-17T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:30:17","slug":"red-sox-and-bluefish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/books\/red-sox-and-bluefish\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox and Bluefish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one-third first\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/images\/books\/red-sox-and-bluefish-med.jpg\" alt=\"Red Sox and Bluefish\" width=\"321\" height=\"277\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"booksmeta\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/057112982X\/ref=nosim\/susanorleanco-20\">Buy at Amazon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/057112982X\">Buy at Amazon UK<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/redsox.mlb.com\/\">Home page of the Boston Red Sox<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/books\">More of my books&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two-thirds\">\n<h1>Red Sox and Bluefish<\/h1>\n<div id=\"book-l\">\n<p>My editor at the Boston Globe, Ande Zellman, asked me to write a column for the Sunday magazine defining the character of the region. Since I was from the Midwest and found New England strange and fascinating, I grabbed the assignment and wrote the column for a year, choosing a different strange and fascinating New Englandism (for instance, the use of the word &#8216;wicked&#8217;; the New England boiled dinner; the wretchedly incompetent driving) to analyze each week. The week I wrote my last column (I was about to move to New York, so it seemed like a good time to bow out) a small publisher interested in collecting the columns into a book contacted me. It was a great way to end the year and leave New England.<\/p>\n<h3>Reviews<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Publishers Weekly<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Orlean notes the quirks, oddities and characters who lend a distinctive charm to New England&#8230;investigated in a hilarious fashion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy at Amazon Buy at Amazon UK Home page of the Boston Red Sox More of my books&#8230; Red Sox and Bluefish My editor at the Boston Globe, Ande Zellman, asked me to write a column for the Sunday magazine defining the character of the region. Since I was from the Midwest and found New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-20","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/110"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}