{"id":655,"date":"2008-02-07T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/strunk-and-white\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T02:51:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T02:51:47","slug":"strunk-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/strunk-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"strunk and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sister and I were talking about style last night.  Not the &#8216;Fashion Week&#8217; type.  The Tolstoy, Faulkner and Hardy type. <\/p>\n<p>A family member once accused me of letting life pass by while my head was stuck in a book.  <\/p>\n<p>Clearly, said family member didn&#8217;t understand me.  At all.  The sister did.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was because, as the eldest, I was able to force my will upon the younger sib. (There&#8217;s an article somewhere in <em>Time<\/em> about this.)  And my will, at ten, was all Byron and Bronte and Pearl S. Buck.<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m fairly certain the sister would have done it on her own, these days she&#8217;s the first to admit: &#8220;I was just seven years old when Buffy started making me read Dickins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very glad I did it.  I think she is too. <\/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>The sister and I were talking about style last night. Not the &#8216;Fashion Week&#8217; type. The Tolstoy, Faulkner and Hardy type. A family member once accused me of letting life pass by while my head was stuck in a book. Clearly, said family member didn&#8217;t understand me. At all. The sister did. Maybe it was<!-- 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}