{"id":312,"date":"2004-11-28T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2004-11-28T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T00:46:00","slug":"312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lost Books Club<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m with Maud Newton<\/a> when it comes to Vance Bourjaily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lost Books Club I’m with Maud Newton when it comes to Vance Bourjaily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-312","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":276,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=276","url_meta":{"origin":312,"position":0},"title":"New blogs on writing Bitch\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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