{"id":13258,"date":"2023-10-09T03:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T07:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=13258"},"modified":"2023-10-09T03:36:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T07:36:04","slug":"stories-from-quarantine-from-the-new-york-times-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/09\/stories-from-quarantine-from-the-new-york-times-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"“Stories from Quarantine” from the New York Times Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Copyright 2020 by The New York Times Company. Published by Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a compendium of 29 short stories involving, in some way, the COVID pandemic. It was originally published as The Decameron Project<\/em>, a reference the Boccaccio’s classic Decameron<\/em> which is a compendium of stories told by people quarantined by the Black Plague. The stories are well-written and some are interesting, but too many are vague or odd (e.g., the one where time stops just before an auto accident).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many are just downright depressing. Not surprising, I suppose, since they all involve a very depressing pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t enjoy it. 3 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2020 by The New York Times Company. Published by Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York. This is a compendium of 29 short stories involving, in some way, the COVID pandemic. It was originally published as The Decameron Project, a reference the Boccaccio’s classic Decameron which is a compendium of stories … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3rQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13259,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258\/revisions\/13259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}