{"id":1141,"date":"2011-01-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:03:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:03:20","slug":"best-american-short-stories-of-2010-edited-by-richard-russo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Best American Short Stories of 2010 &#8211; edited by Richard Russo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Best-2BAmerican-2BShort-2BStories-2B2010.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Best-2BAmerican-2BShort-2BStories-2B2010.jpg\" width=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The latest issues of this long running collection of short stories does not disappoint. <\/p>\n<p>Lots of ironic and unsuspecting endings in this year&#8217;s collection, lots of talented authors who know how to write stories that suck you in.<\/p>\n<p>The quote of the entire book is in the story, &#8220;Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events&#8221; by Kevin Moffett. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talent realizes its limitations and gives up while incompetence keeps plugging away&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love it, because it is so true.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting note is that a couple of the stories this year are about climate change in the near future and how it affects people.<\/p>\n<p>If you love short stories or if you would like a sampling of great stories, this is the book. Also interesting is that there is a little bio on each author and the author says a little something about their story. <\/p>\n<p>I rate the book 3.5 stars out of 5. I&#8217;ve bought it every year since the mid 1980&#8217;s and I&#8217;ve loved them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issues of this long running collection of short stories does not disappoint. Lots of ironic and unsuspecting endings in this year&#8217;s collection, lots of talented authors who know how to write stories that suck you in. The quote of the entire book is in the story, &#8220;Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events&#8221; by Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}