{"id":1112,"date":"2006-08-18T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2006-08-18T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T23:51:09","slug":"books-i-finished-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/books-i-finished-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Just Finished Reading : Maximum City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/0375403728\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/maximum-city.jpg\" align=left vspace=7 hspace=7\/><\/a><i>Maximum City<\/i>, by Suketu Mehta (2004). An astonishing portrait of a city that I knew nothing about: Mumbai (Bombay). It&#8217;s a biographical love letter to a megapolis that sports everything from strippers to Mafia dons and Bollywood stars, with dashes of street poets and masala Cokes. Incredible book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum City, by Suketu Mehta (2004). An astonishing portrait of a city that I knew nothing about: Mumbai (Bombay). It&#8217;s a biographical love letter to a megapolis that sports everything from strippers to Mafia dons and Bollywood stars, with dashes of street poets and masala Cokes. Incredible book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-books","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-hW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}