{"id":58,"date":"2005-07-01T21:48:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T02:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:02:55","slug":"thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Thought For The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinoconnor.org\/archives\/2005\/06\/consensusbased.html\">Critical Mass<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/archives20050626.shtml#101221\">Our Girl in Chicago<\/a> both link to an amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobylives.com\/anti_MFA.html\">attack<\/a> on writers\u2019 workshops.  I couldn\u2019t help thinking of one of Kingsley Amis\u2019 apophthegms:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If there\u2019s one word that sums up everything that\u2019s gone wrong since the War, it\u2019s Workshop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In searching the web for the exact phrasing, I found that I had forgotten the sequel:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After Youth, that is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course there&#8217;s nothing wrong with the sort of workshop that contains power tools or more primitive equivalents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Mass and Our Girl in Chicago both link to an amusing attack on writers\u2019 workshops. I couldn\u2019t help thinking of one of Kingsley Amis\u2019 apophthegms: If there\u2019s one word that sums up everything that\u2019s gone wrong since the War, it\u2019s Workshop. In searching the web for the exact phrasing, I found that I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-poetry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}