{"id":7552,"date":"2019-04-08T08:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:24:39","slug":"longreads-4-7-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/longreads-4-7-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Longreads, 4\/7\/19."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My latest draft post for ESPN+ subscribers looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.com\/mlb\/insider\/story\/_\/id\/26465134\/law-brennan-malone-jack-leiter-standouts-prep-showcase\">the top prospects from last week&#8217;s NHSI tournament<\/a>, including C.J. Abrams, Riley Greene, and Jack Leiter; as well as Saturday&#8217;s outing by Elon RHP George Kirby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some of the leftover longreads I hadn&#8217;t gotten through in time for yesterday&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <em>Guardian<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/apr\/05\/its-genuine-you-know-why-the-online-influencer-industry-is-going-authentic\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the evolution of the influencer market<\/a>, which continues to grow even through scandals and fragmentation. The article also focuses, a bit oddly, on influencers&#8217; drive for &#8220;authenticity,&#8221; which strikes me as a contradiction in terms.<\/li><li>A reader sent this lengthy <em>Current Affairs<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2019\/03\/all-about-pete\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overview of Pete Buttigeig as seen through his book <em>Shortest Way Home<\/em><\/a>, arguing that he&#8217;s not a progressive candidate and that progressive voters shouldn&#8217;t want any part of him as a Presidential candidate. I think the article makes many good points, notably when discussing his policies as South Bend mayor and how he seemed to deprioritize issues like poverty reduction or racial inequality, but also makes some dubious inferences and leans too much on the book itself, which is a campaign document. Buttigeig also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2019\/04\/pete-buttigieg-books.html\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about his ten favorite books<\/a> for <em>Vulture<\/em> and I find it hard to believe that these ten, which read like the list of books you want other people to believe are your favorite books, are actually <em>his <\/em>favorites.<\/li><li>The <em>Indy Star<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/in-depth\/news\/2019\/03\/26\/john-sonny-franzese-colombo-crime-family-indianapolis\/3139068002\/\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">profiles John Franzese<\/a>, whose testimony sent his father, a Colombo crime family boss, to jail, and his life after leaving witness protection, trying to work with recovering addicts like himself.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve read two great books on the Chicxulub impact event, the asteroid collision with the earth that wiped out the dinosaurs and caused the KT mass extinction event, in the last year: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Pf8p0O\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2HmwH81\">T. rex and the Crater of Doom<\/a><\/em>. The <em>New Yorker<\/em> has a piece right in line with those, looking at the recent discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/04\/08\/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died\">a site that may have a fossil record of the first few hours<\/a> after the impact.<\/li><li>Matthew Komatsu documents his <a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2019\/03\/11\/after-the-tsunami\/\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">experiences as a Japanese-American in the wake of the 2011 tsunami<\/a>, and what he found in his 2018 return to the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest draft post for ESPN+ subscribers looks at the top prospects from last week&#8217;s NHSI tournament, including C.J. Abrams, Riley Greene, and Jack Leiter; as well as Saturday&#8217;s outing by Elon RHP George Kirby. Here are some of the leftover longreads I hadn&#8217;t gotten through in time for yesterday&#8217;s post: The Guardian looks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,190,907],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history-of-science","tag-links","tag-social-media","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7557,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}