{"id":719,"date":"2013-11-07T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burnbridle.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2013-11-07T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:55:33","slug":"the-devil-in-bucks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"The Devil in Bucks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cool rainy evening here in Bucks County, the perfect kind of night to curl up with a good book. Unfortunately, this isn&#8217;t one of them. Edmund Schiddel&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Devil in Bucks County<\/em> is so bad that it&#8217;s basically unreadable. I browsed it trying to pull a quote and couldn&#8217;t find anything worth repeating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They came flocking into Bucks County like locusts,&#8221; the back cover states, referring to the artists and writers who moved to the area from New York. Too bad Schiddel was one of them. In 1959 he published\u00a0<em>The Devil in Bucks County<\/em>, which takes place in a town that loosely resembles New Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the locals have old Bucks County names like Stackhouse, Hibbs, and Satterthwaite, but Schiddel&#8217;s portrayal of New Hope is about as out of touch as M. Night Shymalan&#8217;s portrayal of Newtown in <em>Signs<\/em> (remember the scene in which the owners of the bookstore tell the children, &#8220;We keep those books for the city folk!&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>While the text may be worth less than the 50 cents this second edition sold for in 1960, it&#8217;s kind of nice to have a 50&#8217;s pulp novel set in your hometown. I&#8217;ll admit that I bought it for the cover:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-720\" alt=\"Devil-In-Bucks_front\" src=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_front.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_front.jpg 504w, https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_front-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-721\" alt=\"Devil-In-Bucks_back\" src=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_back.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_back.jpg 504w, https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Devil-In-Bucks_back-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cool rainy evening here in Bucks County, the perfect kind of night to curl up with a good book. Unfortunately, this isn&#8217;t one of them. Edmund Schiddel&#8217;s\u00a0The Devil in Bucks County is so bad that it&#8217;s basically unreadable. I browsed it trying to pull a quote and couldn&#8217;t find anything worth repeating. &#8220;They came flocking into Bucks County &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/?p=719\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,76,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bucks-county","category-new-hope"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p44e7y-bB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}