{"id":740,"date":"2020-01-02T07:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2020-01-02T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:37:34","slug":"kitchen-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/432C16C7-D5DB-4123-BB75-9194F7EDA208-e1577798904290-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of &quot;Kitchen Confidential&quot; by Anthony Bourdain\" class=\"wp-image-739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/432C16C7-D5DB-4123-BB75-9194F7EDA208-e1577798904290-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/432C16C7-D5DB-4123-BB75-9194F7EDA208-e1577798904290.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption>Cover of &#8220;Kitchen Confidential&#8221; by Anthony Bourdain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just finished this one after taking almost a year to read it. The thing is, you only get to read a really great book once for the first time. I&#8217;m more aware of that now than I was before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From my journal&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>Finished &#8220;Kitchen Confidential.&#8221;  I&#8217;m still moved by Bourdain&#8217;s death in a way that makes no sense. I guess, in a way, we feel a resonance with people whose minds might be a bit like our own. To see one go down in flames is a bit much. It&#8217;s a strange hurt for someone we don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s difficult to understand (for me).<\/em><\/p><p><em>In any case, the book is brilliant. It has a savage and building rhythm and I think that&#8217;s why people liken him to HST. But he wasn&#8217;t HST. I get it, he just wasn&#8217;t. He was himself. And that&#8217;s more important.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished this one after taking almost a year to read it. The thing is, you only get to read a really great book once for the first time. I&#8217;m more aware of that now than I was before. From &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=740\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}