{"id":858,"date":"2004-09-10T20:15:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=858"},"modified":"2004-09-10T20:15:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T20:15:27","slug":"the-wisdom-of-jonathan-safran-foer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/858","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of Jonathan Safran Foer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a title=\"The New York Times > Books > Questions for . . .: Jonathan Safran Foer&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/books\/foer-answers.html?8bu&#8221;><i>New York Times<\/i> Q&#038;A with Jonathan Safran Foer<\/a>, the young novelist tosses in this one-sentence bit of real wisdom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve tried to write the book I would want to read, rather than the book I would want to write.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s a fantastic &#150; and critical &#150; insight that young writers often overlook.  My respect for the man just ratcheted up a couple of notches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-dQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}