{"id":1116,"date":"2006-03-19T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2006-03-20T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T12:10:15","slug":"the-ridge-is-blue-the-prose-is-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-ridge-is-blue-the-prose-is-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ridge is Blue; the Prose is Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asheville <a href=\"http:\/\/elumenati.com\/\">elumenati<\/a> David McConville is indignant about <a href=\"http:\/\/travel2.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/19\/travel\/tmagazine\/19ts-asheville.html\">the purple prose let loose in the NYTimes Magazine Travel section<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=WELLS+TOWER\">Wells Tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tower wants to write about the good things in Asheville\/Black Mountain, but his <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu\/art\/app\/arts\/writing\/index.jsp\">Columbia-trained MFA<\/a> kills it for the readers. Better to go over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrn.columbia.edu\/\">the J-School<\/a>, Wells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1116#comment-25967\">David&#8217;s response in the comment below.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asheville elumenati David McConville is indignant about the purple prose let loose in the NYTimes Magazine Travel section by Wells Tower. Tower wants to write about the good things in Asheville\/Black Mountain, but his Columbia-trained MFA kills it for the readers. Better to go over to the J-School, Wells. UPDATE: Check out David&#8217;s response in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}