{"id":2550,"date":"2024-02-25T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2024-02-25T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T19:43:17","slug":"february-2-25-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/february-2-25-24\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2\/25\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I want to highly recommend this book &#8212; Ron Henderson is a kind of miracle &#8212; and his observations about class surpass, I think, those of Fussell. Surviving a childhood of drug-addicted mother, repeated foster homes, incessant turmoil and wild acting-out as a teenager, he finally got a handle on things by joining the Air Force. He then went on to Yale and a PhD from Cambridge (England). His observations on the class snobbery he survived are remarkable for their analytical quality and a kind of calm about it all. When he met Harold Bloom, and related to Bloom very briefly his background, Bloom put a hand on his arm and said, &#8220;You were forged in a fire&#8221;.  Henderson is the author of the term &#8216;luxury belief&#8217;, which has become current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be current, read up on this, it&#8217;s the start of something new, or perhaps very old, but certainly welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How it might affect the present state of fiction I can&#8217;t tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-768x1123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-1051x1536.jpg 1051w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-1401x2048.jpg 1401w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-624x912.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/troubled3-Copy-scaled.jpg 1751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to highly recommend this book &#8212; Ron Henderson is a kind of miracle &#8212; and his observations about class surpass, I think, those of Fussell. Surviving a childhood of drug-addicted mother, repeated foster homes, incessant turmoil and wild acting-out as a teenager, he finally got a handle on things by joining the Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}