{"id":6594,"date":"2011-06-04T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2011-06-04T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:48:27","slug":"emile-zola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6594","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9mile Zola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am staying with good friends here in Paris on the Avenue \u00c9mile Zola in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> <i>arrondissement<\/i>. Over dinner the other evening with another friend, I remarked how odd it is, given that Zola was such a seminal literary figure, that in America he is hardly known.  And for those few Americans who do recognize his name, most know him for only one phrase &#8212; <i>&#8220;J&#8217;accuse\u2026!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Henri replied sardonically, &#8220;Zola is known as the frenchman who defended the Jew.&#8221;  At which point I couldn&#8217;t resist pointing out that Dreyfus was not the only Jew defended by the french.  &#8220;Who else?&#8221; Henri asked.  I had my answer ready.  &#8220;Why, Jerry Lewis and Woody Allen, of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By an odd coincidence, this afternoon on the metro I overheard a family of Chinese tourists.  The teenage daughter had spotted Zola&#8217;s name on some signage (&#8220;Avenue \u00c9mile Zola&#8221; is the name of a metro stop on the 10 line), and she was eager to show off her knowledge of french culture.  &#8220;\u00c9mile Zola,&#8221; she explained to them, switching for effect from Mandarin into English, &#8220;was a journalist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am staying with good friends here in Paris on the Avenue \u00c9mile Zola in the 15th arrondissement. Over dinner the other evening with another friend, I remarked how odd it is, given that Zola was such a seminal literary figure, that in America he is hardly known. And for those few Americans who do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00c9mile Zola&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}