{"id":1903,"date":"2015-12-05T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2015-12-05T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:33:24","slug":"the-hierarchy-of-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"The Hierarchy of Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is quite amusing to read the perceivably arrogantly and omnisciently chosen definitive lists of books of 2015 in some of the hierarchical media, cherrypicked largely by the same coterie of cliques and elites as every year. Plus \u00e7a change.<\/p>\n<p>Three books I enjoyed in 2015 and had the pleasure to review are:<\/p>\n<p>The Lie of the Land<br \/>\nElaine Gaston<br \/>\nDoire Press<br \/>\n\u20ac12<br \/>\nReview published in Books Ireland, November\/December 2015, Issue No. 364<\/p>\n<p>Even the Dead, Benjamin Black, Viking \u20ac14.99<br \/>\nReview published 10\/08\/2015 Sunday Independent<\/p>\n<p>The Truth &#038; Other Stories<br \/>\nSarah Clancy<br \/>\nSalmon Poetry<br \/>\n\u20ac12<br \/>\nReview published in Books Ireland, March\/April 2015. Issue No. 360<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively read the reviews at http:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?page_id=508<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll look at some more worthy books as the month progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is quite amusing to read the perceivably arrogantly and omnisciently chosen definitive lists of books of 2015 in some of the hierarchical media, cherrypicked largely by the same coterie of cliques and elites as every year. Plus \u00e7a change.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}