{"id":6345,"date":"2013-06-30T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2013-06-30T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T16:22:54","slug":"to-try-to-do-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/30\/to-try-to-do-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"to try to do the right thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09white1_span-popup-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6346 aligncenter\" alt=\"Art Streiber for The New York Times. Prop stylist: Jamie Dean Studio. Insects by Graham Owen.  \t\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09white1_span-popup-v2.jpg\" width=\"393\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09white1_span-popup-v2.jpg 393w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09white1_span-popup-v2-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\"><span><em>Photo by Art Streiber for The New York Times<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>from the 2011 ny times magazine interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/magazine\/stuff-mike-white-likes.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">mike white<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because White\u2019s film characters tend to elicit existential discomfort, he often gets pegged as a satirist. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cI think I\u2019m more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I\u2019m more of a \u2014 humanist? I hate to say it!\u201d This made him laugh. But it\u2019s an accurate description, in the sense that he returns again and again to the subject of what it\u2019s like and what it means to be human \u2014 to try to do the right thing, to screw up, to feel bad, to try again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Art Streiber for The New York Times from the 2011 ny times magazine interview with mike white: Because White\u2019s film characters tend to elicit existential discomfort, he often gets pegged as a satirist. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cI think I\u2019m more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I\u2019m more of [&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-6345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345","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=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}