{"id":141,"date":"2014-03-13T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-09-04T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T01:05:05","slug":"a-sock-full-of-holes-by-jacob-snodgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"A Sock Full of Holes by Jacob Snodgrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sock-full-of-holes-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-164\" alt=\"Sock full of holes #2\" src=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sock-full-of-holes-2-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sock-full-of-holes-2-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sock-full-of-holes-2-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sock-full-of-holes-2.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Snodgrass&#8217; writing careens between the caterwauling of desperate souls in\u00a0the fever of rutting to moments of perfect silence and contemplation.\u00a0\u00a0The command of his material is sure and he is unafraid to\u00a0develop themes atop such disparate muses as Squeaky Fromme, drunken nights, and the legacy of wartime atrocities.\u00a0 There are\u00a0plenty of laugh out loud moments\u00a0within these stories, as\u00a0they arise from the humor of the situation and of the character&#8217;s misspent\u00a0lives.\u00a0 The plots crackle with originality as the characters lead us through what at first feels like the edges of a collapsing society, but as the stories tumble through your consciousness you begin to believe you might be standing smack in the middle of an alternate universe or in a trash-strewn berm of a marginal road slicing through your own neighborhood.\u00a0 Coming in May of 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snodgrass&#8217; writing careens between the caterwauling of desperate souls in\u00a0the fever of rutting to moments of perfect silence and contemplation.\u00a0\u00a0The command of his material is sure and he is unafraid to\u00a0develop themes atop such disparate muses as Squeaky Fromme, drunken nights, and the legacy of wartime atrocities.\u00a0 There are\u00a0plenty of laugh out loud moments\u00a0within these stories, as\u00a0they arise from the humor of the situation and of the character&#8217;s misspent\u00a0lives.\u00a0 The plots crackle with originality as the characters lead us through what at first feels like the edges of a collapsing society, but as the stories tumble through your consciousness you begin to believe you might be standing smack in the middle of an alternate universe or in a trash-strewn berm of a marginal road slicing through your own neighborhood.\u00a0 Coming in May of 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sock-full-of-holes-2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}