{"id":7027,"date":"2016-09-11T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2016-09-11T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T16:24:57","slug":"3-books-for-the-international-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7027","title":{"rendered":"3 Books for the International Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, I have the privilege of meeting an international visitor to the United States.  In some cases, it is their first visit.  Perhaps, they are visiting my home &#8211; the Madison area.<\/p>\n<p>I often mention three books that might provide a lens to contemplate the recent United States.  <\/p>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<p>A. When Pride Still Mattered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/When-Pride-Still-Mattered\/David-Maraniss\/9780684870182\">David Maraniss<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>B. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance\">Robert Pirsig<\/a>, and <\/p>\n<p>C. Lake Wobegon Days by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Wobegon_Days\">Garrison Keillor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are surely many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, I have the privilege of meeting an international visitor to the United States. In some cases, it is their first visit. Perhaps, they are visiting my home &#8211; the Madison area. I often mention three books that might provide a lens to contemplate the recent United States. They are: A. When Pride Still Mattered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7029,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}