{"id":780,"date":"2025-09-02T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=780"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:22:36","slug":"pretentiousness-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/pretentiousness-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretentiousness: Why it Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ee-big-quote wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClaims to ordinariness and salt-of-the-earth virtue\u2014&lsquo;slumming it,&rsquo; as it\u2019s crudely called\u2014are themselves pretentious. The assumption that dropping your aitches or asserting a love of a cheap beer over a fine wine, or processed cheese over a Parmesan, will make you seem unspoiled or somehow more gritty is classic downwardly mobile play-acting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dan Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[946],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-dan-fox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}