{"id":1309,"date":"2003-01-29T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2003-01-29T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-30T00:56:00","slug":"james-frey-puts-the-smackdown-on-dave-eggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/01\/29\/20\/56\/james-frey-puts-the-smackdown-on-dave-eggers\/","title":{"rendered":"James Frey Puts the Smackdown on Dave Eggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;safe=off&#038;q=%22James+Frey%22+million+pieces\">James Frey<\/a> has one or two things to say about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;safe=off&#038;q=eggers+cult\">Dave Eggers<\/a> and his <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375725784\/meehawl-20\">A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/pages\/publish.asp\">A book that I thought was mediocre was being hailed as the best book written by the best writer of my generation &#8230; Fuck that. And fuck him and fuck anybody that says that. I don?t give a fuck what they think of me. I?m going to try to write the best book of my generation and I?m going to try to be the best writer &#8230; And maybe I?ll fall flat on my fucking face but I?ll fall flat on my fucking face trying to do it.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I await his much ballyhooed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0385507755\/meehawl-20\">A Million Little Pieces<\/a> with interest&#8230; I wonder if it reads as pleasantly as his dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So James Frey has one or two things to say about Dave Eggers and his A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A book that I thought was mediocre was being hailed as the best&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}