{"id":4233,"date":"2015-08-28T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:31:37","slug":"books-are-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/books-are-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Books Are Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4235\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4235\" class=\"wp-image-4235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bools-Guggenheim.jpg\" alt=\"At the Guggenheim, 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bools-Guggenheim.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bools-Guggenheim-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bools-Guggenheim-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bools-Guggenheim-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Storylines Exhibition at\u00a0the Guggenheim Museum, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Books are literally art in one piece at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\" target=\"_blank\">Guggenheim<\/a>. The best novels change us and the way we see the world, like the best art does. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonydoerr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Doerr&#8217;s<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see\" target=\"_blank\">All The Light We Cannot See<\/a>,<\/em> which is art in many ways, from Doerr&#8217;s descriptions and rich characters, to the lovely<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/doerr.jpg\" alt=\"doerr\" width=\"117\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/doerr.jpg 317w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/doerr-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/doerr-250x375.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/> way the white space occupies the pages and sets off the chapters, giving me a chance to take a fresh breath before I plunge on. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You just want to sink into his world because of the beauty and truth side by side with the pain. \u00a0Ten years he took to write that book, and it was worth every minute if you ask this reader.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books are literally art in one piece at the Guggenheim. The best novels change us and the way we see the world, like the best art does. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been thinking about Doerr&#8217;s All The Light We Cannot See, which is art in many ways, from Doerr&#8217;s descriptions and rich characters, to the lovely way the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[607],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}