{"id":3444,"date":"2010-03-21T21:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2010-03-21T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:37:21","slug":"hacks-all-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3444","title":{"rendered":"Hacks! All of Them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry reposted a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semicolonblog.com\/?p=1639\">authors commenting on other authors<\/a>, like these:<\/p>\n<p>William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: \u201cHe has never been known to use a word that might send a man to a dictionary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Hemingway, in reply: \u201cPoor Faulkner. Does he really think emotions come from big words?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the living authors are saying about each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whosnews.usaweekend.com\/2009\/02\/exclusive-stephen-king-on-jk-rowling-stephenie-meyer\/\">Stephen King said<\/a>: \u201cThe real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can\u2019t write worth a darn. She\u2019s not very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. King also said: &#8220;Somebody who\u2019s a terrific writer who\u2019s been very, very successful is Jodi Picoult. You\u2019ve got Dean Koontz, who can write like hell. And then sometimes he\u2019s just awful. It varies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to take me a while to find more of these, so I&#8217;ll have to leave it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry reposted a collection of authors commenting on other authors, like these: William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: \u201cHe has never been known to use a word that might send a man to a dictionary.\u201d Ernest Hemingway, in reply: \u201cPoor Faulkner. Does he really think emotions come from big words?\u201d I wonder what the living authors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hacks! All of Them!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}