{"id":1128,"date":"2009-08-15T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/buffy-on-anton-how-to-write-like-chekhov\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:08:09","slug":"buffy-on-anton-how-to-write-like-chekhov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/buffy-on-anton-how-to-write-like-chekhov\/","title":{"rendered":"buffy and anton.  how to write like chekhov."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Write-Like-Chekhov-Inspiration\/dp\/1569242593\"target=_blank>&#8220;How to Write Like Chekhov:<\/a> Advice and Inspiration.  Straight from his own Letters and Work.&#8221;  Edited and introduced by Piero Brunello and Lena Lencek.  Translated by Lena Lencek.  <\/p>\n<p>I bought this last night at Borders.  This morning I read it and loved it and got to thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not at all sure that &#8216;Buffy and Anton&#8217; has quite the ring to it that &#8216;Julie and Julia&#8217; has.  But I&#8217;ve decided, on a whim, to follow the master of my craft every day for the next <em>however many days it takes<\/em> in hopes of creating something tolerable enough to worthy his critique.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know how it turns out. <\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/anton-chekhov-family.jpg' alt='Aton Chekhov and Family.  1890.' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anton Chekhov (seated bottom right), looking not a little bit like Freddy Rodr\u00edguez, with his family and friends in front of their Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya home in 1890.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration. Straight from his own Letters and Work.&#8221; Edited and introduced by Piero Brunello and Lena Lencek. Translated by Lena Lencek. I bought this last night at Borders. This morning I read it and loved it and got to thinking&#8230; I&#8217;m not at all sure that &#8216;Buffy and<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}