{"id":1538,"date":"2009-10-13T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2012-12-17T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:56:49","slug":"excerpts-and-quotes-and-donut-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/excerpts-and-quotes-and-donut-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts and Quotes and Donut Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I read an excerpt of, for example, an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel or a quote from a poem by John Keats, what am I missing? What am I gaining?<\/p>\n<p>I miss two things: 1) The rest of the story; and 2) Developing the skill required to recognize the remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>I gain one thing: 1) Time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that I should stop reading the excerpts and start reading the novels, poems and other works that are excerpted. How can I claim to have lived my own life &#8211; to have found my own path &#8211; to produce anything original if I have no understanding of that which surrounds the exceptional? That is, if I am to be exceptional, I must know the unexceptional as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read an excerpt of, for example, an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel or a quote from a poem by John Keats, what am I missing? What am I gaining? I miss two things: 1) The rest of the story; and 2) Developing the skill required to recognize the remarkable. I gain one thing: 1) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}