{"id":25615,"date":"2013-02-06T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irmadriessen.nl\/log\/?p=25615"},"modified":"2013-02-06T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T23:00:32","slug":"aloneness-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/aloneness-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"aloneness, smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each new phase of aloneness reveals that<br \/>\nyou were previously less alone than you<br \/>\nthought. <small>\u2013 Black Box, Jennifer Egan (fragment)<\/small> <\/p>\n<p>A smile is like a shield; it freezes your face<br \/>\ninto a mask of muscle that you can hide behind.<br \/>\n<small>\u2013 Black Box, Jennifer Egan (fragment)<\/small> <\/p>\n<p>Several of my long-standing fictional interests converged in the writing of Black Box. One involves fiction that takes the form of lists; stories that appear to be told inadvertently, using a narrator\u2019s notes to him or herself. My working title for this story was <em>Lessons Learned<\/em>, and my hope was to tell a story whose shape would emerge from the lessons the narrator derived from each step in the action, rather than from descriptions of the action itself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each new phase of aloneness reveals that you were previously less alone than you thought. \u2013 Black Box, Jennifer Egan (fragment) A smile is like a shield; it freezes your face into a mask of muscle that you can hide behind. \u2013 Black Box, Jennifer Egan (fragment) Several of my long-standing fictional interests converged in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/aloneness-smile\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[718,795,796,797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}