{"id":17216,"date":"2009-06-28T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17216"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:31:05","slug":"when-writers-write-about-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/28\/when-writers-write-about-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"When writers write about writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I signed up for a service which would send me a <i>New Yorker<\/i> cartoon every few days.  Each cartoon would be accompanied by advertising, of course, but still, I love <i>New Yorker<\/i> cartoons, and was willing to put up with that in exchange for ones showing up serendipitously in my in-box.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the cartoon which was waiting for me when I woke this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NewYorkerCartoonJune2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NewYorkerCartoonJune2009-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"NewYorkerCartoonJune2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NewYorkerCartoonJune2009.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NewYorkerCartoonJune2009-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is one reason I try not to write about writers. <\/p>\n<p>Who wants to appear as pathetic as <i>that<\/i> guy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I signed up for a service which would send me a New Yorker cartoon every few days. Each cartoon would be accompanied by advertising, of course, but still, I love New Yorker cartoons, and was willing to put up with that in exchange for ones showing up serendipitously in my [&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":[388],"class_list":["post-17216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216","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=17216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17218,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions\/17218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}