{"id":6116,"date":"2013-11-27T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2013-11-27T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T14:22:06","slug":"cormac-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6116","title":{"rendered":"cormac mccarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is, I suppose, the EE Cummings of our time. He had to differentiate himself from the other writers in some way so he decided to make half his shit unreadable. <\/p>\n<p>As much as I like the stuff he writes, I do wish someone along the line had told him to use some damned punctuation. I&#8217;d like to lock him in a room with victor borge for about a week and see if that made any difference. <\/p>\n<p>A week ago I wrote about a dream I had about the Dalai Lama and tried to handle it about the way mc carthy had, and nobody even called me on it, so I assume that people have gotten used to that sort of thing. <\/p>\n<p>I suppose the intelligentsia saw this as a demonstration of the &#8220;fact&#8221; that people in flyover country have always been rubes, and loved it. I don&#8217;t know. It is cleverly written. I&#8217;m getting a little sick to death of the &#8220;We stole this country from the Indians!&#8221; bullshit, I sure as hell didn&#8217;t, and the Indians seem to have done pretty damned well out of the deal, these days. <\/p>\n<p>Whatever. As much as I enjoy the way some people turn the language to their own advantage, this sort of thing coarsens it, no matter what kory stamper says. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, I am specifically aware of the lack of capitalization in this post. it has all been specifically intentional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is, I suppose, the EE Cummings of our time. He had to differentiate himself from the other writers in some way so he decided to make half his shit unreadable. As much as I like the stuff he writes, I do wish someone along the line had told him to use some damned punctuation. I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}