{"id":301,"date":"2017-05-27T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2017-05-27T22:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T22:05:41","slug":"letters-to-a-young-writer-colum-mccann-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/05\/letters-to-a-young-writer-colum-mccann-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Letters to a Young Writer<\/i> &#8211; Colum McCann, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I hadn&#8217;t read so many books on writing, I might have gotten more out of this. A very quick read&#8211;short, pithy sentences like strings of aphorisms&#8211;which I&#8217;ll barely remember tomorrow. I liked the chapter epigraphs, excellent quotations from various writers, most of which were new to me. And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And don&#8217;t expect&#8211;even in fiction&#8211;for written things to be true just because they happened. This is no excuse. They have to happen on the page. With rhythm. With style. With a fierce honesty that is true to experience, not to fact.<\/p>\n<p>All writing is imagination. It creates out of dust. Even what they choose to call <em>nonfiction<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I hadn&#8217;t read so many books on writing, I might have gotten more out of this. A very quick read&#8211;short, pithy sentences like strings of aphorisms&#8211;which I&#8217;ll barely remember tomorrow. I liked the chapter epigraphs, excellent quotations from various writers, most of which were new to me. And this: And don&#8217;t expect&#8211;even in fiction&#8211;for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}