{"id":1719,"date":"2026-11-07T01:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2026-11-07T01:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:44:31","slug":"on-second-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/on-second-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"On Second Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, it turns out I&#8217;m not really the daily-posting type. Nothing of interest happened yesterday. I went to the one photography show I had picked out in advance, enticingly titled &#8220;Projections Onto the East,&#8221; but it turned out to be a total dud, without any discernible relationship to the title. Its only redeeming feature was the venue, a strange pseudo-antiquity called the Schinkel Pavilion, constructed during GDR times and previously invisible to me, despite the fact that I must have passed by it half a dozen times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did go to Dussmann and encountered my Berlin book piled in stacks on the nonfiction table of the English Bookshop. So that was a thrill. I even took a photo so as to be able to savor the pleasure over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be back tomorrow only if I have anything to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out I&#8217;m not really the daily-posting type. Nothing of interest happened yesterday. I went to the one photography show I had picked out in advance, enticingly titled &#8220;Projections Onto the East,&#8221; but it turned out to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/on-second-thought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-lesser-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}