{"id":168752,"date":"2024-10-08T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=168752"},"modified":"2024-10-08T12:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:13:31","slug":"my-enemies-a-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/","title":{"rendered":"My Enemies, A\u2013Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"

Ann-Margret in Tommy<\/em> (1975). Screenshot by Molly Young.<\/p><\/div>\n

A list of all my enemies, in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n


\nADMIN<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the tasks I dread because I\u2019m too weak or lazy to (a) find a way to not do them or (b) use my imagination to render them interesting.<\/p>\n

BELATEDLY LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Studying a new language when you\u2019re thirty-seven is an unbelievably inefficient use of time. It takes me weeks to grasp what a five-year-old child could pick up without even trying. This isn\u2019t true of anything else I do in my spare time, like gardening or baking. I could crush a five-year-old\u2019s learning curve in both of those things.<\/p>\n

When trying to speak a foreign language I am always catapulting myself out of a frying pan and into a fire. Last year, in Mexico, for instance, someone asked why I wasn\u2019t speaking Spanish and I replied, \u201cBecause I\u2019m afraid I will accidentally be rude\u201d\u2014except what I actually said was \u201cBecause I\u2019m afraid I will accidentally become horny.\u201d<\/p>\n

COFFEE HEART<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some call it tachycardia. <\/em>The New York Times<\/em> named it \u201ccoffee heart\u201d in a 1905 article<\/a> with the fantastic title of “SMALL BOY HAS ‘COFFEE HEART'” and the subtitle “Child of Eight Is in City Hospital Slowly Regaining Health. HEART BEATS TOO FAST. Muscle Was Wearing itself Out — Drank a Dozen Cups a Day.”<\/p>\n

The article is about an eight-year-old named Johnnie Murphy, whose heart was apparently beating at \u201ctwice the normal rate\u201d after its owner got into the habit of drinking nine to twelve cups per day. A suspiciously timed mention of the coffee substitute Postum at the end of the article raises the likelihood that the whole thing is sponcon, though there\u2019s no way to be sure.<\/p>\n

CONSPIRACIES TO ROB US OF OUR DIGNITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019re everywhere. Too numerous to list. And growing by the day.<\/p>\n

DEPRESSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one of his letters Henry James refers to depression as \u201cthe azure demon.\u201d An interesting color assignment, azure.<\/p>\n

EUROPEAN CLOTHES DRYERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not all of them, obviously\u2014just the two most recent ones I happened to meet. Both machines were programmed to be eco-friendly, which meant they automatically sensed when clothes were dry (meaning extremely damp) and stopped tumbling. If I restarted the dry cycle, I could fool them for one to four minutes before they were onto my tricks and shut themselves off again.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

FDA FOOD DEFECT LEVELS HANDBOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n

In theory I worship this government website<\/a>, as I admire anything that is humble in presentation yet vastly utile. But in practice it has undermined my lust for such delicacies as pitted dates and potato chips. And what is an enemy but something or someone who steals your lust for living?<\/p>\n

What the site does, helpfully, is share the FDA\u2019s guidelines for how much of a given contaminant (mold, rodent hair, parasites) can be included in a given food item (pineapple juice, macaroni and noodle products, canned tomatoes) before it exceeds the threshold of acceptability. Meaning that, thanks to the FDA, you can gobble your Skippy safe (\u201csafe\u201d) in the knowledge that it contains fewer than thirty insect fragments per hundred grams. Don\u2019t look at the entry for Maraschino cherries.<\/p>\n

HARSH VERBIAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

All sorts of pain can be contained in the name of a unit. For example, to be alone is not a bad thing, but to be a “party of one” is awful.<\/p>\n

JELLYFISH LARVAE<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be clear, mature jellyfish are not an enemy. Whether it is an ethereal comb jelly basking in the shallows or a hubcap-size lion\u2019s mane bobbing through hurricane waves, the phylum Cnidaria is one batch of organisms that puts man-made attempts at compositional beauty to shame. That said, the larva of a certain jelly\u2014I haven\u2019t pinpointed the species other than \u201csome bastard who populates a specific point break on the western coast of Mexico\u201d\u2014has a practice that elevates it to the status of enemy.<\/p>\n

The swarming larvae are invisible and harmless if they happen to brush up against a human arm or leg. However. If they work their way into, say, a bikini top or pair of trunks, they will rebel at the presence of friction and lash out in a manner that feels like a million microscopic volcanoes erupting. When you paddle tearfully back to shore and rip off your swimsuit you will find that the larvae have left a perfect blistering outline of where your swimsuit once was. Now that I type this, it occurs to me that I\u2019m describing an act of comic heroism, not villainy. When it comes to jellyfish larvae, the enemy might be Me.<\/p>\n

LOOKING THINGS UP ONLINE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also known as \u201chaving a bad memory.\u201d The real problem with googling every tiny query that arises is that it has caused the cost of an answer to plummet. All you have to do to is type, e.g., \u201cIs a porpoise a dolphin?\u201d or \u201cWhat does ethodological mean?\u201d into your phone and wait one instant for the information to arrive. And then, having paid so little, you proceed to forget whatever you learned almost in real time.<\/p>\n

NAUSEA<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lowest form of mindfulness.<\/p>\n

OTITIS EXTERNA<\/strong><\/p>\n

A stunning name for a crude antagonist.<\/p>\n

PODCASTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

In truth I love podcasts. I love having voices piped into my ears, love soothing my nerves with gentle chatter. The only problem is that if I\u2019m not alone with my thoughts \u2026 I tend not to have them.<\/p>\n

PROCTALGIA FUGAX<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proctalgia fugax<\/em> sounds like the name of a Thomas Pynchon character or a parasitic fungus but it is neither. It\u2019s a truncheoning pain that occurs in the lowermost back area during periods of stress, anxiety, or pregnancy. Proctalgia fugax <\/em>brought itself to my attention during a recent pregnancy. I wish nothing would ever \u201cbring itself to my attention.” Only bad things do.<\/p>\n

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n

In most cultures it is considered polite to make eye contact with someone before you exsanguinate them.<\/p>\n

[REDACTED]<\/strong><\/p>\n

This entry is censored because it is the name of a person. For all of last year I wished him harm. More recently I\u2019ve been wishing I could stop<\/em> wishing him harm \u2026 which is wonderful progress.<\/p>\n

SPREE<\/em> (WORD)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Used almost exclusively in the contexts of crime and shopping\u2014but why?<\/p>\n

T-SHIRTS THAT SAY WHERE THE WEARER ATTENDED COLLEGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

An objectively uncool category of clothing.<\/p>\n

UNISOM<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only over-the-counter sleeping aid that renders me unconscious, but at a steep cost: it thwarts dreaming. Sleep without dreams is hardly worth it. I do enjoy thinking of the name Unisom as a portmanteau of Unified<\/em> and Somnolence<\/em>, as though the tablets might work by consolidating all of one\u2019s disparate torpors into a dense nocturnal block.<\/p>\n

WRITER (IDENTITY)<\/strong><\/p>\n

If I’m honest, I don\u2019t know why my brain puts certain words in a certain order. One day I will get worse at doing so, and I will continue to get worse until eventually I stop, and that will have been my career.<\/p>\n

Molly Young is a book<\/span> critic<\/span> for the <\/em>New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4393],"tags":[67827],"class_list":["post-168752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMy Enemies, A\u2013Z by Molly Young<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 8, 2024 \u2013 Jellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Enemies, A\u2013Z by Molly Young\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"October 8, 2024 \u2013 Jellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-08T14:00:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-08T16:13:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"378\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Molly Young\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Molly Young\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Molly Young\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d7c0181271096aaca044ee732cb86f58\"},\"headline\":\"My Enemies, A\u2013Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-08T14:00:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-08T16:13:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/\"},\"wordCount\":1194,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Featured\"],\"articleSection\":[\"First Person\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/\",\"name\":\"My Enemies, A\u2013Z by Molly Young\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-08T14:00:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-08T16:13:31+00:00\",\"description\":\"October 8, 2024 \u2013 Jellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png\",\"width\":810,\"height\":378},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"My Enemies, A\u2013Z\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d7c0181271096aaca044ee732cb86f58\",\"name\":\"Molly Young\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86855c4a843995db9a4e0029484be143dbb86e6baec6a5e5a1e7d93d872b610e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86855c4a843995db9a4e0029484be143dbb86e6baec6a5e5a1e7d93d872b610e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Molly Young\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/myoung\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"My Enemies, A\u2013Z by Molly Young","description":"October 8, 2024 \u2013 Jellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"My Enemies, A\u2013Z by Molly Young","og_description":"October 8, 2024 \u2013 Jellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2024-10-08T14:00:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-10-08T16:13:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":810,"height":378,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Molly Young","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Molly Young","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/"},"author":{"name":"Molly Young","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d7c0181271096aaca044ee732cb86f58"},"headline":"My Enemies, A\u2013Z","datePublished":"2024-10-08T14:00:39+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-08T16:13:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/"},"wordCount":1194,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png","keywords":["Featured"],"articleSection":["First Person"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/","name":"My Enemies, A\u2013Z by Molly Young","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png","datePublished":"2024-10-08T14:00:39+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-08T16:13:31+00:00","description":"October 8, 2024 \u2013 Jellyfish larvae, looking things up online, T-shirts that say where the wearer attended college.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/picture12.png","width":810,"height":378},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/my-enemies-a-z\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"My Enemies, A\u2013Z"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d7c0181271096aaca044ee732cb86f58","name":"Molly Young","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86855c4a843995db9a4e0029484be143dbb86e6baec6a5e5a1e7d93d872b610e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86855c4a843995db9a4e0029484be143dbb86e6baec6a5e5a1e7d93d872b610e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Molly Young"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/myoung\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168752"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168804,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168752\/revisions\/168804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}