{"id":36759,"date":"2011-12-02T17:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/12\/02\/most-of-the-writers-i-know-are-weird-hybrids\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T17:19:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:19:16","slug":"most-of-the-writers-i-know-are-weird-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/12\/02\/most-of-the-writers-i-know-are-weird-hybrids\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There\u2019s a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing\u2019s kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there\u2019s also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sometimesagreatnotion.tumblr.com\/\">sometimesagreatnotion<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There\u2019s a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing\u2019s kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there\u2019s also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person. David &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/12\/02\/most-of-the-writers-i-know-are-weird-hybrids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10017,10016,390,1470,10015,11],"class_list":["post-36759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-egomania","tag-gpoy","tag-quotes","tag-shyness","tag-writing","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}