{"id":10114,"date":"2015-10-24T01:06:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T01:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10114"},"modified":"2015-10-24T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:19:44","slug":"to-allow-one-to-access-the-higher-registers-of-gentleness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/to-allow-one-to-access-the-higher-registers-of-gentleness\/","title":{"rendered":"to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness."},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-wc=\"19\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/my-writing-education-a-timeline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10115\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saunders-My-Written-Education-690.jpg\" alt=\"george saunders and his wife paula in 1986, via the new yorker\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saunders-My-Written-Education-690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saunders-My-Written-Education-690-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><em>george saunders and his wife paula in 1986<\/em><\/h6>\n<p data-wc=\"19\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/my-writing-education-a-timeline\" target=\"_blank\">george saunders&#8217; &#8220;My Writing Education: A Time Line&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-wc=\"19\">On a visit to Syracuse, I hear Toby [Tobias Wolff, writer and Saunders&#8217; teacher at Syracuse] saying goodbye to one of his sons. \u201cGoodbye, dear,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p data-wc=\"10\">I never forget this powerful man calling his son \u201cdear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-wc=\"80\">All kinds of windows fly open in my mind. It is powerful to call your son \u201cdear,\u201d it is powerful to feel that the world is dear, it is powerful to always strive to see everything as dear. Toby is a powerful man: in his physicality, in his experiences, in his charisma. But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>george saunders and his wife paula in 1986 from george saunders&#8217; &#8220;My Writing Education: A Time Line&#8221;: On a visit to Syracuse, I hear Toby [Tobias Wolff, writer and Saunders&#8217; teacher at Syracuse] saying goodbye to one of his sons. \u201cGoodbye, dear,\u201d he says. I never forget this powerful man calling his son \u201cdear.\u201d All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10125,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions\/10125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}