{"id":29,"date":"2008-02-22T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/22\/your-life-story-in-six-words\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T21:25:00","slug":"your-life-story-in-six-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/your-life-story-in-six-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Your life story in six words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2008\/02\/25\/080225ta_talk_widdicombe\">Ink: Say It All in Six Words: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brevity: a good thing in writing. Exploited by texters, gossip columnists, haikuists. Not associated with the biography genre. But then\u2014why shouldn\u2019t it be? Life expectancies rise; attention spans shrink. Six words can tell a story. That\u2019s a new book\u2019s premise, anyway. \u201cNot Quite What I Was Planning.\u201d A compilation of teeny tiny memoirs. The forebear, it\u2019s assumed, is Hemingway. (Legend: he wrote a miniature masterpiece. \u201cFor sale: baby shoes, never worn.\u201d Slightly sappy, but a decent sixer.)&#8221; from the New Yorker online 2\/25\/08<\/p>\n<p>Me: Girl writes, grows, wonders; heals again.<\/p>\n<p>Your turn&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ink: Say It All in Six Words: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker &#8220;Brevity: a good thing in writing. Exploited by texters, gossip columnists, haikuists. Not associated with the biography genre. But then\u2014why shouldn\u2019t it be? Life expectancies rise; attention spans shrink. Six words can tell a story. That\u2019s a new book\u2019s premise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}