{"id":55902,"date":"2013-07-10T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=55902"},"modified":"2013-07-10T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:23:17","slug":"the-best-in-wikipedia-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-best-in-wikipedia-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best in Wikipedia Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55903\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Timothy-Dexter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55903\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55903\" alt=\"Timothy Dexter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Timothy-Dexter.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Timothy-Dexter.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Timothy-Dexter-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Dexter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For those of you looking to go down some seriously deep rabbit holes or just appreciate the outsider art that is Wikipedia prose at its best, may we suggest this beautifully curated list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/copybot.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/07\/the-50-most-interesting-articles-on-wikipedia\/?c\" target=\"_blank\">fifty most interesting articles on\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>? While this compendium is indeed fascinating, we can&#8217;t help feeling that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timothy_Dexter\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Dexter<\/a> is a glaring omission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you looking to go down some seriously deep rabbit holes or just appreciate the outsider art that is Wikipedia prose at its best, may we suggest this beautifully curated list of the fifty most interesting articles on\u00a0Wikipedia? While this compendium is indeed fascinating, we can&#8217;t help feeling that Timothy Dexter is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[11362,11361,1291],"class_list":["post-55902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-copybot","tag-timothy-dexter","tag-wikipedia"],"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>The Best in Wikipedia Prose<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For those of you looking to go down some seriously deep rabbit holes or just appreciate the outsider art that is Wikipedia prose at its best.\" \/>\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\/2013\/07\/10\/the-best-in-wikipedia-prose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Best in Wikipedia Prose by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 10, 2013 \u2013 For those of you looking to go down some seriously deep rabbit holes or just appreciate the outsider art that is Wikipedia prose at its best, may we\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-best-in-wikipedia-prose\/\" \/>\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=\"2013-07-10T17:09:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-07-10T17:23:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Timothy-Dexter.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\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=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-best-in-wikipedia-prose\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-best-in-wikipedia-prose\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"The Best in Wikipedia Prose\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-10T17:09:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-07-10T17:23:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-best-in-wikipedia-prose\/\"},\"wordCount\":74,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-best-in-wikipedia-prose\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Timothy-Dexter.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"copybot\",\"timothy dexter\",\"Wikipedia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Arts &amp; 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