{"id":595,"date":"2007-03-04T23:33:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T04:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/04\/for-joan-didion-readers\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T23:33:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T04:33:55","slug":"for-joan-didion-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"For Joan Didion Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A delightful essay by Joan Didion in today’s NYTimes in five parts.<\/p>\n

It’s about writing her very first play this year, “The Year of Magical Thinking.”<\/p>\n

You can read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is one line from the essay:<\/p>\n

“One example, a note: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is about the speaker discovering that she is completely powerless, that the control she so prizes is nonexistent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d’<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know that Didion has lost both her husband and only child?<\/p>\n

That her daughter was named Quintana Roo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A delightful essay by Joan Didion in today’s NYTimes in five parts. It’s about writing her very first play this year, “The Year of Magical Thinking.” You can read it here. Here is one line from the essay: “One example, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}