{"id":2037,"date":"2007-04-12T19:41:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T00:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2007-04-12T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T00:41:50","slug":"i-caused-the-decline-of-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/i-caused-the-decline-of-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"I Caused the Decline of Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A literature group that I participate in online &#8212; warren wilson alums &#8211;had turned into a complaint forum about the overuse of I in writing. This is a perennial complaint of course and often raised as as answer to why writing isn&#8217;t worth reading today (during whichever today this complaint is being registered). Where is mythic writing? Asked one member. (or perhaps the discussion started on the mythic as a cue for writing). I confessed thusly:<\/p>\n<p>I Caused the Decline of Literature<\/p>\n<p>Sex with a swan<br \/>\nis decidedly mythic;<br \/>\nsex with a swain<br \/>\nis mere arithmetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A literature group that I participate in online &#8212; warren wilson alums &#8211;had turned into a complaint forum about the overuse of I in writing. This is a perennial complaint of course and often raised as as answer to why writing isn&#8217;t worth reading today (during whichever today this complaint is being registered). Where is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","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=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}