{"id":1064,"date":"2012-09-02T01:37:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T05:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:37:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T05:37:04","slug":"this-is-not-my-copy-of-wonder-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/this-is-not-my-copy-of-wonder-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not My Copy of Wonder Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1064\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fthis-is-not-my-copy-of-wonder-boys%2F&amp;text=This%20Is%20Not%20My%20Copy%20of%20Wonder%20Boys&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fthis-is-not-my-copy-of-wonder-boys%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/this-is-not-my-copy-of-wonder-boys\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>It&#8217;s a library copy. I&#8217;ve owned at least three others over the years, beginning with the Picador paperback from &#8217;96 with Vernon Hardapple&#8217;s Galaxie 500 on the cover. The copies I owned were either lost or lent (so: lost), and I&#8217;ve come to believe maybe I shouldn&#8217;t own a copy of this book. I&#8217;ve yet to lose the library&#8217;s edition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wonder Boys<\/em> is my favorite book. There are surely better, more sophisticated books, but this is the one that chose me. This book is my big brother. I love it, admire it. I want to impress it. Sometimes I resent its presence in the world. It is a book that still gives me much of its original pleasure, yet against which I always feel I fall short. No matter: I will get up and try again. And if this continues to get me past a series of invisible finish lines during my time in this world, then I have yet another thing to love about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1064\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fthis-is-not-my-copy-of-wonder-boys%2F&amp;text=This%20Is%20Not%20My%20Copy%20of%20Wonder%20Boys&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fthis-is-not-my-copy-of-wonder-boys%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>What are you reading? This week I&#8217;m re-reading Wonder Boys, a book which has had a hold on me for sixteen unbroken years. It&#8217;s complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-are-you-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}