{"id":19145,"date":"2019-04-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=9b64240a971c4dfeb125c0e8b4bb7d05"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:00:00","slug":"the-front-table-4-23-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/04\/23\/the-front-table-4-23-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Front Table: 4\/23\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for reading and listening with us on this week\u2019s Front Table from the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago. Browse each week\u2019s Front Table and subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter at semcoop.com for more serious books for curious readers. \"I greet you at the beginning of a great career.\" This, legend has it, was the first blurb, or brief book description, to appear in 1856 courtesy of Ralph Waldo Emerson in praise of Walt Whitman\u2019s Leaves of Grass. This week, we cover the long and short of blurbs, calling out to us from the Co-op\u2019s Front Table, with Seminary Co-op Assistant Manager Alena Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/semcoop.libsyn.com\/the-front-table-42319\">Open Stacks<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for reading and listening with us on this week\u2019s Front Table from the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago. Browse each week\u2019s Front Table and subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter at semcoop.com for more serious books for curious reader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19147,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions\/19147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}