{"id":190325,"date":"2026-09-27T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=190325"},"modified":"2026-09-27T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:22:39","slug":"quote-of-the-day-the-great-wall-of-pastel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/quote-of-the-day-the-great-wall-of-pastel\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day: The Great Wall of Pastel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spyridonandrews.substack.com\/p\/men-dont-hate-reading-they-hate-your\" target=\"_blank\">Abstract Truth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is truly baffling why men have gasped in horror at American fiction in much the same manner they would at the announcement of a Streisand-Cher double bill. I finally walked through the fiction section of Barnes &#038; Noble some time ago and decided that I would rather be waterboarded than spend another minute there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Truth: It is truly baffling why men have gasped in horror at American fiction in much the same manner they would at the announcement of a Streisand-Cher double bill. I finally walked through the fiction section of Barnes &#038; Noble some time ago and decided that I would rather be waterboarded than spend another &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/quote-of-the-day-the-great-wall-of-pastel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote of the day: The Great Wall of Pastel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-words"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-NvL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190327,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190325\/revisions\/190327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}