{"id":877,"date":"2006-10-18T02:19:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T07:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=877"},"modified":"2006-10-18T02:19:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T07:19:36","slug":"on-a-great-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"On a Great Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garrison Keillor had a fantastic line in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmsfeatures.com\/tmsfeatures\/subcategory.jsp?catid=1945\">his most recent newspaper column<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was in college, I read Kafka and Camus and tried to write like them, in flat non-American English, as if written under the influence of a migraine, until it slowly dawned on me that I was missing the basic experiences that had formed them. Enduring high school is not the same as growing up Jewish in Prague or fighting in the French Resistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s onto something there.  I think <i>many<\/i> young writers go through that phase. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrison Keillor had a fantastic line in his most recent newspaper column: When I was in college, I read Kafka and Camus and tried to write like them, in flat non-American English, as if written under the influence of a migraine, until it slowly dawned on me that I was missing the basic experiences that<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=877\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Great Quote&#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":[75],"tags":[706,4102],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-garrison-keillor","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}