{"id":1478,"date":"2006-06-17T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T17:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/06\/whats_wrong_with_critics\/"},"modified":"2006-06-17T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T17:35:25","slug":"whats_wrong_with_critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/06\/whats_wrong_with_critics.html","title":{"rendered":"WHAT&#8217;S WRONG WITH CRITICS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.buysub.com\/pubs\/N3\/NYR\/self_051103.jsp?cds_page_id=26445&#038;cds_mag_code=NYR&#038;id=1150555103910&#038;lsid=61680938239021034&#038;vid=1&#038;cds_response_key=I9DNNPC3&#038;cds_mag_code=NYR\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The New Yorker [June 19, 2006]\" src=\"https:\/\/subscribe.condenet.com\/images_covers\/cover_newyorker_190.jpg\" width=119 align=left border=0 \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/critics\/theatre\/articles\/060619crth_theatre\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Try this:<\/strong><\/font><\/a> &#8220;Guy [the main character in a new Neil LaBute play] cauterizes himself against pain, in large part through language, <i>a sort of semantic jujitsu that obfuscates his emotional reality and keeps him firmly within the parameters of his own narrative.<\/i>&#8221; (Italics added.)<br \/>\nI prefer critics who write <i>in plain English<\/i>, especially when they&#8217;re published in The New Yorker &#8212; don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try this: &#8220;Guy [the main character in a new Neil LaBute play] cauterizes himself against pain, in large part through language, a sort of semantic jujitsu that obfuscates his emotional reality and keeps him firmly within the parameters of his own narrative.&#8221; (Italics added.) I prefer critics who write in plain English, especially when they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-nQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}