{"id":258,"date":"2007-02-07T02:01:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:37:52","slug":"the-call-of-the-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/07\/the-call-of-the-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CALL OF THE WEIRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travels in American Subcultures<\/p>\n<p>By Louis Theroux<\/p>\n<p>Da Capo Press. 266 pages. $24.<br \/>\nReaders Opinions<br \/>\nForum: Book News and Reviews<\/p>\n<p>Just who is &#8220;we&#8221; The Call of the Weird,\u009d Mr. Theroux&#8217;s extended road trip in search of American oddballs, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s the wide, wonderful universe of survivalists, flat-earthers, end-of-the-world prophets, Nevada brothel owners, topless dancers, get-rich-quick motivational speakers, white-pride lunatics and the many, many Americans who have been abducted by aliens. And Ike Turner, too.<\/p>\n<p>It might feel as if we have met many of these people before. Mr. Theroux certainly has. He made the same stops about 10 years ago for the BBC in a television series called &#8216;\u201cLouis Theroux&#8217;s Weird Weekends.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d In a nostalgic moment, or perhaps to pick up a quick paycheck, he decided to revisit his old pals and see how they were getting along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/07\/books\/07grim.html?_r=1&amp;ref=books&amp;oref=slogin\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travels in American Subcultures By Louis Theroux Da Capo Press. 266 pages. $24. Readers Opinions Forum: Book News and Reviews Just who is &#8220;we&#8221; The Call of the Weird,\u009d Mr. Theroux&#8217;s extended road trip in search of American oddballs, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/07\/the-call-of-the-weird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}