{"id":1928,"date":"2008-12-16T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:18:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:18:52","slug":"100-shots-of-short-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"100 Shots of Short Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December I entered this reading challenge. When I updated it, I found that for some reason I didn&#8217;t have the orginal post but I had this copy. So I&#8217;m posting it now.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to enter yet another Reading Challenge. This is is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/robaroundbooks.com\/robs-reading-challenges\/100-shots-of-short-reading-challenge\/\">100 Shots of Short<\/a>&#8221; and it is geared to short stories. There is no time period and the rules are very flexible. I don&#8217;t have a predetermined list so I&#8217;ll list them as I read them.<\/p>\n<p>My first one is in this weeks New Yorker:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1927\">The Woman of the House<\/a>&#8221; by William Trevor. Read 12\/15\/2008.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Another Manhattan&#8221; by Donald Antrium. Read 12\/22\/2008.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Some Women&#8221; by Alice Munro, read 12\/23\/2008.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Meeting with Enrique Lihn&#8221; by Roberto Bolano, read 12\/24\/2008.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Gangsters&#8221; by Zadie Smith, read 12\/25\/2008<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Limner&#8221; by Julian Barnes, read 1\/9\/2009.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Al Roosten&#8221; by George Saunders, read 1\/31\/2009.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Slows&#8221; by Gail Hareven, read 5\/3\/2009<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Use of Poetry&#8221; by Ian McEwan&#8221; in the 12\/7\/09 New Yorker, read 12\/5\/09.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Wiggle Room&#8221; by David Foster Wallace from the New Yorker<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Distant Relations&#8221; by Orphan Pamuk<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December I entered this reading challenge. When I updated it, I found that for some reason I didn&#8217;t have the orginal post but I had this copy. So I&#8217;m posting it now. I have decided to enter yet another Reading Challenge. This is is called &#8220;100 Shots of Short&#8221; and it is [&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":[712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}