{"id":473,"date":"2008-09-24T23:27:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T03:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2008-09-24T23:27:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T03:27:32","slug":"please-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/24\/please-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Please read this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I give Adrienne credit for this&#8230; I saw it open in her browser window.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne is among the few (of which some of you are also included) that I&#8217;ve forced to read some work of author David Foster Wallace. Some of you may know I&#8217;m a fan. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Supposedly-Fun-Thing-Never-Again\/dp\/0316925284\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1222312905&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\">non-fiction short works<\/a> are very accessible. Other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Everything-More-Compact-Infinity-Discoveries\/dp\/0393326292\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_10?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1222312905&amp;sr=8-10\" target=\"_blank\">non-fiction<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Infinite-Jest-David-Foster-Wallace\/dp\/0316066524\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1222312905&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">some fiction<\/a>, not so much, for some.<\/p>\n<p>But this is apparently a commencement speech he gave a few years back. <a href=\"http:\/\/goaheadsueme.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/david-foster-wallace-at-kenyon-college.html\" target=\"_blank\">And this is what I hope you&#8217;ll read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. this whole post assumes that you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-wallace14-2008sep14,0,7461856.story\" target=\"_blank\">he died not too long ago<\/a>. If you didn&#8217;t, now you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give Adrienne credit for this&#8230; I saw it open in her browser window.<br \/>\nAdrienne is among the few (of which some of you are also included) that I&#8217;ve forced to read some work of author David Foster Wallace. Some of you may know I&#8217;m a fan. His non-fiction short works are very accessible. Other non-fiction [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-7D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}