{"id":147,"date":"2008-08-07T20:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T20:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2008-08-07T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T20:45:23","slug":"a-good-writer-is-lovely-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"a good writer is lovely thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered Wendell Berry and was quite moved by his writing.  This from a Harper&#8217;s article that could be described as commentary oh human greed: <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2008\/05\/0082022\">We are, in short, coming under pressure to understand ourselves as limited creatures in a limited world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this from Daniel Mendelsohn, who last year became one of my new favorite writers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/boldtype\/0699\/mendelsohn\/excerpt.html\">I know a man, a handsome young man with an agile mind and a brilliant professional career, who has sex with a different stranger every night, if at all possible.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered Wendell Berry and was quite moved by his writing. This from a Harper&#8217;s article that could be described as commentary oh human greed: We are, in short, coming under pressure to understand ourselves as limited creatures in a limited world. And this from Daniel Mendelsohn, who last year became one of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-written"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}