{"id":15410,"date":"2012-08-18T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2012-08-17T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:52:12","slug":"a-weekend-book-quote-from-william-styron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/a-weekend-book-quote-from-william-styron\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend Book Quote from William Styron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should lead several lives while reading it.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; William Styron, 1925-2006<\/p>\n<p>A US novelist and essayist, the author of &#8212; amongst other titles &#8212; <em>Lie Down in Darkness<\/em>, <em>The Confessions of Nat Turner<\/em>, and <em>Sophie&#8217;s Choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I feel this quote gives all novelists a wonderful goal to aspire to.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about William Styron, you can read his obituary from the New York Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/02\/books\/02styron.html?pagewanted=all\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should lead several lives while reading it.&#8217; &#8212; William Styron, 1925-2006 A US novelist and essayist, the author of &#8212; amongst other titles &#8212; Lie Down in Darkness, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie&#8217;s Choice. I feel this quote gives all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15414,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions\/15414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}