{"id":751,"date":"2006-11-29T19:15:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T23:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/29\/baronessa-beatrice\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T19:15:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T23:15:37","slug":"baronessa-beatrice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/29\/baronessa-beatrice\/","title":{"rendered":"If Retroactively Naming the Site After Her Helps, Consider It Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t read Alex Mar&#8217;s profile of <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/books\/features\/24751\/index.html\">Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori<\/a> in this week&#8217;s <i>New York<\/i>, by all means drop whatever you&#8217;re doing right now and have at it! What&#8217;s not to like about a woman who opens up her castle to talented young writers, providing them with time and space to be as clever as they can be&#8212;not to mention free meals and conversation in the bargain!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They iron your underwear for you!&#8221; says Andrew Sean Greer, still astonished. &#8220;That&#8217;s hard to take. You have to kind of decide that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fantastic, and there were a lot of writers who found it to be too much.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not me, that&#8217;s for sure. I don&#8217;t know if writing a literary blog is good enough to get me an invite, though, so I guess I&#8217;d better pull that novel manuscript out of &#8220;the drawer&#8221; (which is really just a backup hard drive) and get cracking so I can be seen as someone of sufficient imagination!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t read Alex Mar&#8217;s profile of Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori in this week&#8217;s New York, by all means drop whatever you&#8217;re doing right now and have at it! What&#8217;s not to like about a woman who opens up her castle to talented young writers, providing them with time and space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}