{"id":23959,"date":"2020-12-22T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/why-david-sedaris-hates-much-of-his-early-writing#id28707"},"modified":"2020-12-22T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:01:00","slug":"why-david-sedaris-hates-much-of-his-early-writing-including-the-work-the-santaland-diaries-that-made-him-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/why-david-sedaris-hates-much-of-his-early-writing-including-the-work-the-santaland-diaries-that-made-him-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"Why David Sedaris hates much of his early writing, including the work (\u201cThe Santaland Diaries\u201d) that made him famous."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In his first years writing, he says, &ldquo;I was sitting at the International House of Pancakes in Raleigh, North Carolina with a beret screwed to my head,&rdquo; and the result was &ldquo;the writing you would expect from that person.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/12\/why-david-sedaris-hates-the-santaland-diaries-the-npr-piece-that-made-him-famous.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Open Culture<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/why-david-sedaris-hates-much-of-his-early-writing\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        In his first years writing, he says, &ldquo;I was sitting at the International House of Pancakes in Raleigh, North Carolina with a beret screwed to my head,&rdquo; and the result was &ldquo;the writing you would expect fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23960,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions\/23960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}