{"id":2927,"date":"2008-09-14T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/14\/david-foster-wallace-rip\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T08:19:28","slug":"david-foster-wallace-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/14\/david-foster-wallace-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"David Foster Wallace, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite writers, David Foster Wallace, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/14\/books\/14wallace.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">apparently hung himself yesterday<\/a>. His thousand-page novel <cite>Infinite Jest<\/cite> puts the <i>magnum<\/i> in <i>magnum opus<\/i>, but it&#8217;s a spectacular piece of work, and in some ways, his nonfiction was better than his fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace was always a dangerous writer for me&#8211; one of those people whose style I would end up unconsciously imitating whenever I read something new. He&#8217;d come out with a new collection, and I&#8217;d spend a week deleting footnotes from my emails and blog posts. I&#8217;m shocked and saddened to learn of his death, particularly in this manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite writers, David Foster Wallace, apparently hung himself yesterday. His thousand-page novel Infinite Jest puts the magnum in magnum opus, but it&#8217;s a spectacular piece of work, and in some ways, his nonfiction was better than his fiction. Wallace was always a dangerous writer for me&#8211; one of those people whose style&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/14\/david-foster-wallace-rip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Foster Wallace, RIP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}