{"id":5259,"date":"2007-05-01T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/05\/01\/not-so-obscure\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T21:35:07","slug":"not-so-obscure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/not-so-obscure\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so obscure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Bottum today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/?p=718\">reprinted a July, 2000 article<\/a> in which he called for a revival of Melville Davisson Post&#8217;s <em>Uncle Abner<\/em> stories:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the deliberate tone of the stories and the matching of the writing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pitch to its subject, in the uniting of the religious element with the detective\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s action and the sense of good\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s battle against evil in the solution of a crime, only G.K. Chesterton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Father Brown belongs beside Melville Davisson Post\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Uncle Abner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never read Post; perhaps I will.<\/p>\n<p>Bottum&#8217;s article is outdated in one respect: it&#8217;s not hard to find Uncle Abner in 2007. Bottum himself includes a link to amazon.com, where <strong><em>Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries<\/em><\/strong> is listed as &#8220;in stock.&#8221; If you&#8217;re broke or impatient, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.net.au\/ebooks02\/0200911.txt\">read the collection online<\/a>, courtesy of Project Gutenberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Bottum today reprinted a July, 2000 article in which he called for a revival of Melville Davisson Post&#8217;s Uncle Abner stories: In the deliberate tone of the stories and the matching of the writing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pitch to its subject, in the uniting of the religious element with the detective\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s action and the sense of good\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/not-so-obscure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not so obscure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1mP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}