{"id":1442,"date":"2021-06-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:46:29","slug":"amazing-short-story-by-philip-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Short Story by Philip Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the podcast by the Paris Review entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/podcast\/6048\/making-light\"><em>Making Light<\/em><\/a>. In it is a wonderful short story by Philip Roth. It is one of the best writing ever. Period. I was glued to my chair. The podcast version of the story is superb. The story starts around minute 10 of the podcast. But I suggest you listen to the entire podcast. It is a treat.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/podcast\/6048\/making-light\"> <em>Making Light<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religiouslife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2013\/11\/RothConversionoftheJews.pdf\">Printed Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the podcast by the Paris Review entitled Making Light. In it is a wonderful short story by Philip Roth. It is one <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=1442\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-fiction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paris_Review_Roth.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}