{"id":5201,"date":"2012-11-25T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2012-11-25T19:31:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T19:31:19","slug":"a-tiny-ribbon-of-damp-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/a-tiny-ribbon-of-damp-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"a tiny ribbon of damp smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>two things from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/30\/magazine\/junot-diaz-hates-writing-short-stories.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> about junot d\u00edaz from the ny times magazine. the intro:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every writer is cursed or blessed with a unique creative metabolism: the distinctive speed and efficiency with which he or she converts the raw fuel of life into the mystical, dancing blue smoke of art. <a title=\"More articles about Junot Diaz.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/d\/junot_diaz\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Junot D\u00edaz<\/a>\u2019s metabolism is notoriously slow. His fuel just sits there, and sits there, and maybe every once in a while gives off a tiny ribbon of damp smoke, until you start to worry that it all got rained on and ruined \u2014 and then, 5 or 10 years later, it suddenly explodes into one of the most mesmerizing fires anyone can remember.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and junot on writing \u201cThis Is How You Lose Her&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was the only good day I had in this whole book. The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that\u2019s all you can do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>two things from this article about junot d\u00edaz from the ny times magazine. the intro: Every writer is cursed or blessed with a unique creative metabolism: the distinctive speed and efficiency with which he or she converts the raw fuel of life into the mystical, dancing blue smoke of art. Junot D\u00edaz\u2019s metabolism is notoriously [&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-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","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=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}