{"id":24,"date":"2008-12-16T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/wp\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-05-29T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T18:55:12","slug":"happy-birthday-joan-didion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Joan Didion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, hers is December 5th, not 15th, but hey, I&#8217;m late for everything.<\/p>\n<p>One of the few cool Joans out there. (You think I&#8217;m kidding, but between dead French martyrs and women who fare badly in pop songs, the pickin&#8217;s are slim.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Year-Magical-Thinking-Joan-Didion\/dp\/1400078431\/ref=pd_sim_b_1\">Year of Magical Thinking,<\/a> and &#8220;At The Dam&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-Album-Joan-Didion\/dp\/0374522219\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1229388969&#038;sr=1-5\">The White Album<\/a> is one of my favorite essays of all time, but I&#8217;m an especially big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Where-I-Was-Joan-Didion\/dp\/0679752862\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1229388139&#038;sr=1-1\">Where I Was From<\/a> and recommend it to all lapsed Californians. Celebrate her genius: read &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, hers is December 5th, not 15th, but hey, I&#8217;m late for everything. One of the few cool Joans out there. (You think I&#8217;m kidding, but between dead French martyrs and women who fare badly in pop songs, the pickin&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}