{"id":51,"date":"2018-08-02T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-08-02T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T13:05:09","slug":"hemingway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/02\/hemingway\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemingway on critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LKBELB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hemingway<\/a> called us eunuchs of literature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m not a professional critic, but I\u2019m a natural one. If you scratch the surface of any professional critic, there must be a natural one. For, what kind of job is that? What is its purpose? The job grew from a desire to ruin with words a creation constructed by others. Then it becomes a question of ambition, your either earn from it or you blog about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I give in to my nature, which my idol would have never approved of. <em>\u201cEunuchs of literature\u201d<\/em>. Perfect choice of words, as always.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There\u2019s more: <em>\u201cCritics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.\u201d<\/em> But another metaphor brings it more home to me. It\u2019s about big mindless fishes that come to the boat and devour a fisherman\u2019s treasured and hard-earned catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m the fish, although a very self-aware one.\u00a0I pick my books very carefully, and I stay away from anything predisposed to devouring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemingway called us eunuchs of literature. <a href=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/02\/hemingway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hemingway on critics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[114,126,142,153,212,303,304,478,500],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-08-02-at-14-59-35-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}