{"id":700,"date":"2006-01-15T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2006-01-15T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T03:25:00","slug":"you-never-see-my-feet-cause-they-move-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/you-never-see-my-feet-cause-they-move-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"You never see my feet &#8217;cause they move so fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the last person on earth to weigh in on <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=peopleNews&#038;storyID=2006-01-13T215457Z_01_YUE378902_RTRIDST_0_PEOPLE-ARTS-FREY-DC.XML\" target=\"_blank\">this James Frey crapola<\/a>, which, for whatever reason, has incited a widespread outrage he likes of which I cannot recall ever witnessing before.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to remind everyone that we&#8217;re talking about an author who fudged the details of a memoir. A writer who wrote some things that weren&#8217;t true about his ultimately inconsequential life as a junkie. It&#8217;s bad, sure, and unfortunate, because it dilutes the power of the truthful but not quite as shocking life story.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, that sting we all feel is the realization that our cynicism is justified.<\/p>\n<p>But I think this national sense of injustice is little more than misplaced anger from a populace that is actually (or should be) raging mad over the ongoing shitstorm of untruths fed to it by the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, America, I have found a way to blame George W. Bush for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the last person on earth to weigh in on this James Frey crapola, which, for whatever reason, has incited a widespread outrage he likes of which I cannot recall ever witnessing before. I just want to remind everyone that we&#8217;re talking about an author who fudged the details of a memoir. A writer who wrote some things that weren&#8217;t true about his ultimately inconsequential life as a junkie. It&#8217;s bad, sure, and unfortunate,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}