{"id":133,"date":"2014-03-12T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2015-09-04T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:58:16","slug":"a-bear-in-the-kitchen-new-and-collected-poem-by-michael-salinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"A Bear in the Kitchen- New and Collected Poems by Michael Salinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Bear-in-the-Kitchen-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-170\" alt=\"A Bear in the Kitchen #2\" src=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Bear-in-the-Kitchen-2-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Bear-in-the-Kitchen-2-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Bear-in-the-Kitchen-2-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Bear-in-the-Kitchen-2.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Salinger\u2019s writing <em>is<\/em> like a bear in the kitchen, tearing into the tender truth of everyday life with unpredictable swipes from sharp linguistic claws \u201ccapable of ripping through a refrigerator\u2019s skin.\u201d\u00a0 A grappling hook in a stingray, a red-tailed hawk on a bark covered fence post, an outdated pack of Twizzlers \u2013 Salinger describes familiar images with \u201cthe choreographed precision of slow motion pistons,\u201d scientifically accurate and unsentimentally clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salinger\u2019s writing is like a bear in the kitchen, tearing into the tender truth of everyday life with unpredictable swipes from sharp linguistic claws \u201ccapable of ripping through a refrigerator\u2019s skin.\u201d\u00a0 A grappling hook in a stingray, a red-tailed hawk on a bark covered fence post, an outdated pack of Twizzlers \u2013 Salinger describes familiar images with \u201cthe choreographed precision of slow motion pistons,\u201d scientifically accurate and unsentimentally clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Bear-in-the-Kitchen-2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}