{"id":293,"date":"2003-06-17T00:22:25","date_gmt":"2003-06-17T04:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/17\/beep-beep-coffeetable-crossing\/"},"modified":"2003-06-17T00:22:25","modified_gmt":"2003-06-17T04:22:25","slug":"beep-beep-coffeetable-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/17\/beep-beep-coffeetable-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beep, beep: coffeetable crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a163'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On June 1 I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/01#a132\">Where&#8217;s Laura?<\/a> in my blog.  I just found her, in a magazine, part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getcaughtreading.org\/getcaughtreading\/celebrities\/celebrities.cfm?GCRPhotoID=3\">get caught reading<\/a> campaign.  And what is the First Lady &#8220;reading&#8221;?  A big intellectual tome?  Nope, a coffee-table picture book about the American flag.  (And she&#8217;s not actually reading it, instead facing the camera with a surprised grimace.)<\/p>\n<p>I much prefer the Canadian librarians who are getting caught reading as they pose for a slightly naughty calendar.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1052251834807&amp;call_page=TS_News&amp;call_pageid=968332188492\">Miss October<\/a>, sensual in a bubble-bath, is reading about Marguerite Duras, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375700528\/qid=1055834214\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-4326705-9115250?v=glance&amp;s=books\">The Lover<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Is it just me?  I find that Miss October looks engrossed, intellectually concentrated, and physically sensual, but Mrs. Bush looks as though the book were a scary Mac truck and she got caught in the headlights.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1 I asked Where&#8217;s Laura? in my blog. I just found her, in a magazine, part of the get caught reading campaign. And what is the First Lady &#8220;reading&#8221;? A big intellectual tome? Nope, a coffee-table picture book about the American flag. (And she&#8217;s not actually reading it, instead facing the camera with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}