{"id":1645,"date":"2008-07-02T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2008-07-02T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:20:20","slug":"interviewed-by-the-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1645","title":{"rendered":"Interviewed by the State Department."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interview I did for the State Department&#8217;s America.gov has just gone up with the somewhat dubious title <a href=\"http:\/\/www.america.gov\/st\/diversity-english\/2008\/June\/20080624175344saikceinawz0.757168.html?CP.rss=true\">Beachgoers&#8217; Portable Movies May Distract Them from the Waves<\/a>, which I find highly amusing and somehow fitting given that I&#8217;m leaving for vacation tomorrow evening.  I myself plan to be distracted from the waves by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lord-Jim-Tale-Penguin-Classics\/dp\/0141441615\/\">Conrad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/V-Perennial-Classics-Thomas-Pynchon\/dp\/0060930217\/\">Pynchon<\/a> and maybe a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fool-Moon-Dresden-Files-Book\/dp\/0451462025\/\">Butcher<\/a> rather than by my iPhone, but hey, I&#8217;m old-school.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interview I did for the State Department&#8217;s America.gov has just gone up with the somewhat dubious title Beachgoers&#8217; Portable Movies May Distract Them from the Waves, which I find highly amusing and somehow fitting given that I&#8217;m leaving for vacation tomorrow evening. I myself plan to be distracted from the waves by Conrad, Pynchon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-qx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}