{"id":13305,"date":"2008-09-20T22:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T02:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13305"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:57:17","slug":"raymond-carvers-secret-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/20\/raymond-carvers-secret-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Carver&#8217;s secret revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On page 318 of <i>Esquire<\/i>&#8216;s 75th anniversary issue, the magazine takes satiric note of &#8220;75 Years of Esquire Corrections.&#8221;   One of these mock entries explains the real reasons for Raymond Carver&#8217;s fame:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Due to a printer&#8217;s error, 948 words were accidentally omitted from &#8220;Neighbors,&#8221; Raymond Carver&#8217;s first short story published in <\/i>Esquire<i>, in the June 1971 issue. Credit for Carver&#8217;s influential spare style, once attributed to a former editor at the magazine, should now be directed to a retired print manager in New Jersey.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page 318 of Esquire&#8216;s 75th anniversary issue, the magazine takes satiric note of &#8220;75 Years of Esquire Corrections.&#8221; One of these mock entries explains the real reasons for Raymond Carver&#8217;s fame: Due to a printer&#8217;s error, 948 words were accidentally omitted from &#8220;Neighbors,&#8221; Raymond Carver&#8217;s first short story published in Esquire, in the June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[384],"class_list":["post-13305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-raymond-carver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13306,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}