{"id":4367,"date":"2013-01-09T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2013-01-12T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T19:33:01","slug":"algren-gets-what-he-deserves-from-colin-asher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/01\/algren-gets-what-he-deserves-from-colin-asher.html","title":{"rendered":"Algren Gets What He Deserves from Colin Asher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that Colin Asher&#8217;s smart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/201301\/?read=article_asher\">biographical essay on Nelson Algren<\/a> in The Believer is the best I&#8217;ve ever read. I&#8217;m also glad I made an unacknowledged contribution, one nearly verbatim. Though small, it reminds me that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/03\/forever_and_a_day.html\">words have a life of their own<\/a>, regardless of who wrote them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong> I finally found time to post a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/01\/the-algren-i-knew-was-no-loser.html\">further comment<\/a> on Asher&#8217;s essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that Colin Asher&#8217;s smart biographical essay on Nelson Algren in The Believer is the best I&#8217;ve ever read. I&#8217;m also glad I made an unacknowledged contribution, one nearly verbatim. Though small, it reminds me that words have a life of their own, regardless of who wrote them. Postscript: I finally found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-literature","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-18r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","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=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}