{"id":28882,"date":"2023-10-05T20:02:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28882"},"modified":"2023-10-05T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T03:02:49","slug":"book-rendezvous-with-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/book-rendezvous-with-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;Rendezvous With Oblivion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1532545735i\/39895462.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rendezvous With Oblivion<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/30845.Thomas_Frank\">Thomas Frank<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39895462#CommunityReviews\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39895462#CommunityReviews\"><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From the acclaimed author of\u00a0<em>Listen, Liberal<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas<\/em>, a scathing collection of interlocking essays perfect for this political moment.<\/strong><br><br>With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic,\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u2013bestselling author Thomas Frank takes us on a tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration.<br><br>Holding nothing back, Frank skewers both the right and left, and rages about the systematic inequality that led, in 2016, to millions of anxious, ordinary people rallying to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good.<br><br>For those who despair of the future of America and of reason itself,\u00a0<em>Rendezvous with Oblivion<\/em>\u00a0is a booster shot of energy, reality, and moral outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rendezvous With Oblivion Thomas Frank From the acclaimed author of\u00a0Listen, Liberal\u00a0and\u00a0What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of interlocking essays perfect for this political moment. With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic,\u00a0New York Times\u2013bestselling author Thomas Frank takes us on a tour through present-day America, showing us a&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/book-rendezvous-with-oblivion\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28883,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28882\/revisions\/28883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}