{"id":33560,"date":"2012-06-15T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=33560"},"modified":"2012-06-15T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T14:00:26","slug":"perfume-pikes-and-parsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/perfume-pikes-and-parsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfume, Pikes, and Parsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m42xvnb6nd1roh96t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33561\" title=\"tumblr_m42xvnb6nd1roh96t\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m42xvnb6nd1roh96t-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m42xvnb6nd1roh96t-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m42xvnb6nd1roh96t.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HBO has apologized for allowing<em> Game of Thrones<\/em> to display a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tv-and-radio\/us-news-blog\/2012\/jun\/14\/game-of-thrones-george-w-bush-head\" target=\"_blank\">decapitated head<\/a> that bears a striking resemblance to President George W. Bush. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/penningperfumes.tumblr.com\/anthology\" target=\"_blank\">Penning Perfumes<\/a>: when words make scents. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chooseyourhighsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Choose your Highsmith<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>The <em>OED<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2012\/06\/criticizing-the-oed-alfalfa-philander\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not infallible<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/please-rt\" target=\"_blank\"> dialectics of Twitter<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Color me royal: what\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/14\/off-the-shelf-the-queen-elizabeth-coronation-book\/ \" target=\"_blank\">on our art editor\u2019s bookshelf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO has apologized for allowing Game of Thrones to display a decapitated head that bears a striking resemblance to President George W. Bush. Penning Perfumes: when words make scents. Choose your Highsmith. The OED: Not infallible? The dialectics of Twitter. Color me royal: what\u2019s on our art editor\u2019s bookshelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[434,7867,1219,2029,208,7868,1825,4156,126],"class_list":["post-33560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-charlotte-strick","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-george-w-bush","tag-hbo","tag-n1","tag-oxford-english-dictionary","tag-patricia-highsmith","tag-perfume","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perfume, Pikes, and Parsing by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 15, 2012 \u2013 HBO has apologized for allowing Game of Thrones to display a decapitated head that bears a striking resemblance to President George W. 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