{"id":1418,"date":"2013-05-02T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2013-05-02T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:57:22","slug":"david-foster-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"David Foster Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Poetry you were talking about.” Julie smiles, touching Faye’s cheek.<\/p>\n

Faye lights a cigarette in the wind. “I’ve just never liked it. It beats around bushes. Even when I like it, it’s nothing more than a really oblique way of saying the obvious, it seems like.”<\/p>\n

Julie Grins. Her front teeth have a gap. “But consider how very, very few of us have the equipment to deal with the obvious.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 “Little Expressionless Animals”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Poetry you were talking about.” Julie smiles, touching Faye’s cheek. Faye lights a cigarette in the wind. “I’ve just never liked it. It beats around bushes. Even when I like it, it’s nothing more than a really oblique way of saying the obvious, it seems like.” Julie Grins. Her front teeth have a gap. “But consider how very, very few …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}