{"id":3058,"date":"2008-09-15T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2008-09-15T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T12:46:14","slug":"david-foster-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"David Foster Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer David Foster Wallace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26693804\/\">commited suicide<\/a>. Such a loss. He was a great writer.<\/p>\n<p>His \"Infinite Jest\" is a huge, difficult, but funny and fascinating novel. I read it years ago, loved it, but felt like I probably missed 1\/2 of it. So, I've been slowly working myself up reading it again. In my mental bookshelf, it sits right next to Pynchon and Joyce. And unlike the works of Pynchon and Joyce, I actually recommend it to other people.<\/p>\n<p>\"Infinite Jest\" is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316066524\/ref=amb_link_7500262_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=15ZW3S54GKK16T0SNS3S&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=438547301&pf_rd_i=283155\">#14<\/a> at Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer David Foster Wallace commited suicide. Such a loss. He was a great writer. His \"Infinite Jest\" is a huge, difficult, but funny and fascinating novel. I read it years ago, loved it, but felt like I probably missed 1\/2 of it. So, I've been slowly working myself up reading it again. In my mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}