{"id":2393,"date":"2010-01-28T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2010-01-28T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:33:20","slug":"on-passages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"On Passages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/28\/AR2010012801291.html\">Howard Zinn passed away<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/28\/AR2010012803177.html\">J.D. Salinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read both men&#8217;s work.  I would not characterize myself as a fan of other, though I respected what they both wrote, even liked much of it.<\/p>\n<p>Salinger I read, like most people, in high school.  I didn&#8217;t find his work as revelatory as my classmates did.  I didn&#8217;t find it as lurid as the teachers thought.  After high school, I read Fitzgerald and Hemingway and Faulkner and other writers who mattered to me more.  I never went back to Salinger, though if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/new_terminator_movie_brings_j_d\">Salinger&#8217;s vast cache of <i>Terminator<\/i> fanfic<\/a> is ever published, I will look for that.<\/p>\n<p>Zinn I discovered in college.  I liked his perspective on history &mdash; history may be written by the winners, but there&#8217;s also something to be said for the stories of the losers and for the stories of those on whose backs the winners rode.  I didn&#8217;t always agree with his perspective, especially after 9-11 when I stopped reading <i>The Progressive<\/i> largely because of his increasingly paranoid rantings.<\/p>\n<p>They were both old.  Zinn, 87.  Salinger, 91.  I think about that, and I realize that my grandmother&#8217;s days are dwindling, too.<\/p>\n<p>Will the world see their like again?  I wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Howard Zinn passed away. Today, J.D. Salinger. I&#8217;ve read both men&#8217;s work. I would not characterize myself as a fan of other, though I respected what they both wrote, even liked much of it. Salinger I read, like most people, in high school. I didn&#8217;t find his work as revelatory as my classmates did.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2393\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Passages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[4110,732,4105],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-history","tag-howard-zinn","tag-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}