{"id":1583,"date":"2009-11-03T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:11:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:11:22","slug":"war-dances-by-sherman-alexie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1583","title":{"rendered":"War Dances by Sherman Alexie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just love Sherman Alexie&#8217;s writing. I love the ironic humor in his fiction. Much of it is humorous but with a point, often a very blunt point.<\/p>\n<p>War Dances is a collection of short stories and poems. Most of them involve Native American characters. Alexie is a Spokane\/Coeur d&#8217;Alene Indian. He wrote the screenplay to one of my favorite movies, &#8220;Smoke Signals.&#8221; One of the scenes in that movie has become an inside joke with Sweetie and I, &#8220;John Wayne&#8217;s Teeth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DJUjwJfjd80&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DJUjwJfjd80&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I loved this book. I read it in less than 24 hours. It&#8217;s 4 stars out of 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love Sherman Alexie&#8217;s writing. I love the ironic humor in his fiction. Much of it is humorous but with a point, often a very blunt point. War Dances is a collection of short stories and poems. Most of them involve Native American characters. Alexie is a Spokane\/Coeur d&#8217;Alene Indian. He wrote the screenplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"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=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}