{"id":1951,"date":"2010-05-18T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T07:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2010-06-29T22:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:49:17","slug":"the-falls-the-falls-the-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/the-falls-the-falls-the-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"the falls.  the falls.  the falls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something that&#8217;s neither here nor there but comes to mind because it comes to mind.  Whenever I think of Joyce Carol Oates I always have this image of her running through Hyde Park.  Long and lean and listening.  Alone, with her internal self.  What conversations they must have. <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Falls-Joyce-Carol-Oates.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Falls Joyce Carol Oates\" width=\"414\" height=\"622\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Falls-Joyce-Carol-Oates.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Falls-Joyce-Carol-Oates-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished reading The Falls.  And I don&#8217;t know what to think of it.  I never know what to think of Oates.  Her talent is undeniable. The depth of her characters, incredible.  She&#8217;s real and raw and honest.  She doesn&#8217;t mollycoddle her readers.  Doesn&#8217;t seem a fan of happy endings.  I think that&#8217;s the thing I enjoy most. <\/p>\n<p>Now, to Zombie. <\/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>Something that&#8217;s neither here nor there but comes to mind because it comes to mind. Whenever I think of Joyce Carol Oates I always have this image of her running through Hyde Park. Long and lean and listening. Alone, with her internal self. What conversations they must have. I&#8217;ve just finished reading The Falls. 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":[62,46],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-joyce-carol-oates","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","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=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}