{"id":36158,"date":"2022-06-05T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36158"},"modified":"2022-06-05T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T21:01:48","slug":"in-case-you-need-a-good-meeeeeeeow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/05\/in-case-you-need-a-good-meeeeeeeow\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Need A Good &#8220;Meeeeeeeow!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not that sort &#8211; <em>this sort<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it? That horrible self-consciousness, every sentence comments on itself and comments on itself commenting on itself, and I think it was actually supposed to be\u00a0<em>funny<\/em>. And if the poems were so good, why not just give us one or two and shut up, for God\u2019s sake?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Bishop on J. D. Salinger\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Seymour: An Introduction<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nLetter to Pearl Kazin<br \/>\n9th September 1959<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lettersofnote.com\/p\/negativity-of-note?s=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> at <em><strong>Letters of Note<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not that sort &#8211; this sort: I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it? That horrible self-consciousness, every sentence \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/05\/in-case-you-need-a-good-meeeeeeeow\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36159,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36158\/revisions\/36159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}