{"id":159,"date":"2002-01-31T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-31T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2002-01-31T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-31T15:49:00","slug":"159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.&#8221; &#8211; Stephen King<\/div>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Bestselling writer Stephen King, who once dubbed himself &#8220;the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries,&#8221; is giving up publishing books altogether after his next five, two of which have already been scheduled for 2002 release. &#8220;You get to a point where you get to the edges of a room, and you can go back and go where you&#8217;ve been, and basically recycle stuff,&#8221; King told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/top\/1,1419,L-LATimes-Calendar-X!ArticleDetail-50674,00.html\"><em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it in my own work. People when they read &#8216;Buick Eight&#8217; [to be published by Scribner this fall] are going to think &#8216;Christine.&#8217; It&#8217;s about a car that&#8217;s not normal, OK? You say, &#8216;I&#8217;ve said the things that I have to say, that are new and fresh and interesting to people.&#8217; Then you have a choice. You can either continue to go on, or say I left when I was still on top of my game. I left when I was still holding the ball, instead of it holding me.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.&#8221; &#8211; Stephen King Bestselling writer Stephen King, who once dubbed himself &#8220;the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries,&#8221; is giving up publishing books altogether after his next five, two of which have already been scheduled for 2002 release. &#8220;You get to &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=159\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}