{"id":865,"date":"2003-07-02T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2003-07-02T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T20:13:00","slug":"865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;I believe that writers ought regularly to read the dictionary, paying particular attention to the etymologies of words, as a way of discovering and mapping out the skeleto-muscular system, or perhaps more accurately the deep and fundamental genome, of English. Reading Nabokov is a fair substitute. His perspective on his adopted home&#8211;I mean English&#8211;like that of all immigrants, is often far keener than that of natives, far more alert to the connective tissues of etymology, chance resemblance, homonymy, and foreign influences.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelchabon.com\/books.html\">Michael Chabon<\/a><\/div>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Just felt like sharing.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I believe that writers ought regularly to read the dictionary, paying particular attention to the etymologies of words, as a way of discovering and mapping out the skeleto-muscular system, or perhaps more accurately the deep and fundamental genome, of English. Reading Nabokov is a fair substitute. His perspective on his adopted home&#8211;I mean English&#8211;like that &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=865\">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-865","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\/865"}],"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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}