{"id":2564,"date":"2009-03-04T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2009-03-02T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:36:28","slug":"snark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/snark-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Snark attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm12237482&amp;user_id=davmainweb  \" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2569 alignleft\" title=\"snark1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snark1.jpg?resize=129%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"snark1\" \/><\/a>David Denby is a man on a moral, ethical mission in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn232127369&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.  In it, he seeks to quell  \u201cthe bad kind of invective \u2014 low, teasing, snide, condescending, knowing\u201d he refers to as snark.<\/p>\n<p>This extended essay of a little over 100 pages has a definite academic  lean.  In it, he defines and traces forms of this disdainful rhetoric over the centuries.  Included is a section on the purported origin of the word in Lewis Carroll\u2019s Hunting the Snark, as well as its roots among macho posturing poets and warriors over the ages.<\/p>\n<p>The more poignant examples are culled from the combatants in the last presidential campaign.\u00a0  A shocking revelation, I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Denby is a man on a moral, ethical mission in Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits. In it, he seeks to quell \u201cthe bad kind of invective \u2014 low, teasing, snide, condescending, knowing\u201d he refers to as snark. This extended essay of a little over 100 pages has a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/snark-attack\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[479,478],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-sarcasm","tag-snark"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-Fm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}