{"id":162,"date":"2018-11-14T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/george-saunders-on-writing\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T23:49:40","slug":"george-saunders-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/george-saunders-on-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"George Saunders on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 238, 217); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Gogol himself was a very mixed bag as a person. He ended up his life as a politically conservative scold, repudiating his earlier, wilder, works of genius. So, I love this idea that we are not fixed, solid entities and will vary throughout our lives and that our best work will happen, possibly, at a time and place not of our choosing and will not necessarily be neatly designed Statements of Purpose but might actually be spontaneous bursts from we-know-not-where, that we\u2019ll later be sorry about.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/george-saunders-on-the-best-writing-advice-hes-received\/\">https:\/\/lithub.com\/george-saunders-on-the-best-writing-advice-hes-received\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rest of it is golden insights into the creative process, but this I loved on the inability to plan or control your most powerful ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gogol himself was a very mixed bag as a person. He ended up his life as a politically conservative scold, repudiating his earlier, wilder, works of genius. So, I love this idea that we are not fixed, solid entities and will vary throughout our lives and that our best work will happen, possibly, at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p715w6-2C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}