{"id":4424,"date":"2004-01-04T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2004-01-04T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2004-01-04T10:02:07","slug":"reports-from-berlin-1920-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4424","title":{"rendered":"Reports from Berlin, 1920-33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0393051676\/qid=1100824984\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2\/104-6885291-4747149?v=glance&#038;s=books\" class=\"content-image-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Roth_Berlin_big.gif\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A couple of months ago (March 2003) I started reading Joseph Roth&#8217;s newpaper columns about life in Berlin in the 1920s.&nbsp; He turns out to be a master of short essays on social life. I became so enamored with his powerfully perceptive prose that I started to read his novels. Savoy is a fine story but Job is truly outstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago (March 2003) I started reading Joseph Roth&#8217;s newpaper columns about life in Berlin in the 1920s.&nbsp; He turns out to <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4424\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Roth_Berlin_big.gif\" alt=\"image\" width=\"100\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[13,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-non-fiction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}