{"id":1050,"date":"2005-09-27T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/27\/last-stand\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:32:22","slug":"last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/27\/last-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Emily Gordon: <\/b> I&#8217;ll probably post once or twice more before Ron returns. For now, here&#8217;s a funny exchange from David Remnick&#8217;s talk with John Updike on Saturday. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Remnick:<\/b> What&#8217;s the biggest great [literary] event you&#8217;ve missed?<\/p>\n<p><b>Updike:<\/b> <i>Tristram Shandy<\/i>. I can&#8217;t seem to finish it. It&#8217;s so nitpicky! It&#8217;s one long quibble! And it&#8217;s funny, witty, avant-garde, unpredictable&#8212;everything I like. I&#8217;d like to finish it before I die. And maybe it&#8217;ll be the <i>way<\/i> I die. <i>[The crowd roars.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Remnick:<\/b> I refuse to end this conversation on that statement! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Gordon: I&#8217;ll probably post once or twice more before Ron returns. For now, here&#8217;s a funny exchange from David Remnick&#8217;s talk with John Updike on Saturday. Remnick: What&#8217;s the biggest great [literary] event you&#8217;ve missed? Updike: Tristram Shandy. I can&#8217;t seem to finish it. It&#8217;s so nitpicky! It&#8217;s one long quibble! And it&#8217;s funny, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}