{"id":1639,"date":"2013-05-29T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2013-05-29T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:21:03","slug":"the-greatness-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"The Greatness Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2013\/05\/can-a-short-story-writer-be-called-the-greatest-writer-of-our-time.html\">Elizabeth Minkel on whether George Saunders, who writes only short stories, can achieve Great status<\/a> (The Millions).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v35\/n11\/christian-lorentzen\/poor-rose?utm_source=feedly\">Christian Lorentzen on whether Alice Munro, who writes only short stories and is considered Great, really is<\/a> (London Review of Books).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/triblive.com\/neighborhoods\/yourmurrysville\/yourmurrysvillemore\/4018808-74\/poem-shaneyfelt-course#ixzz2ThQmmh3D\">That Great poem &#8220;Howl&#8221; is stricken from one more high school English curriculum. Certainly not the last<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/may\/24\/salt-poetry-market-slump\">Salt will no longer sponsor your Greatness, but wishes you the best with placing your work elsewhere<\/a> (The Guardian).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2013\/05\/27\/130527crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all\">A Great poem doesn&#8217;t easily spawn Greatness: Dan Brown, Mary Jo Bang, and Clive James take on Dante<\/a> (New Yorker).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thewirecutter.com\/\">The people who promote Great Objects d&#8217; Tech at The Wirecutter<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/thesweethome.com\/\">started The Sweethome for Great household Stuff<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Arrested Development is at least Great in the Abstract. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/tv_club\/features\/2013\/arrested_development_season_4_reviews\/episodes\/arrested_development_flight_of_the_phoenix_recap_season_4_premiere.html\">Here&#8217;s Slate&#8217;s TV Club for Netflix&#8217;s new season 4.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Two efforts to convince you that Greatness lurks in (or can be extracted from) the Fast and Furious films. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/print\/2013\/05\/surprising-things-happen-when-you-watch-6-i-fast-and-furious-i-films-in-a-row\/276203\/\">Here<\/a> (The Atlantic) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2013\/05\/28\/fast_and_furious_economics.html\">here<\/a> (Slate).<\/li>\n<li>Five Great buildings of the Chicago skyline:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66576980?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=cc6f1a\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/66576980\">Chicago &#8211; Five Great Buildings<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/alboardman\">Al Boardman<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Minkel on whether George Saunders, who writes only short stories, can achieve Great status (The Millions). Christian Lorentzen on whether Alice Munro, who writes only short stories and is considered Great, really is (London Review of Books). That Great poem &#8220;Howl&#8221; is stricken from one more high school English curriculum. Certainly not the last. Salt will no longer sponsor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}