{"id":108364,"date":"2023-10-07T18:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=108364"},"modified":"2023-10-07T18:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T18:46:03","slug":"joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=108364","title":{"rendered":"Joan Didion vs. the Political Insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Didion has had a startlingly active afterlife. A star-studded memorial, a pricey estate sale, an underselling Upper East Side co-op: In the almost two years since her death at age 87, much has been said about the queen of New Journalism\u2014good, bad, and unctuous. The lifestyle coverage can be both a distraction and a deflection from the serious substance of Didion\u2019s reporting on topics from the Central Park Five to wartime atrocities in El Salvador&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/175247\/joan-didion-vs-political-insiders-evelyn-mcdonnell-book\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Didion has had a startlingly active afterlife. A star-studded memorial, a pricey estate sale,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders.jpeg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders.jpeg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders.jpeg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108364-joan-didion-vs-the-political-insiders-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=36\" rel=\"category\">Style<\/a>","tag_info":"Style","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}