{"id":212276,"date":"2014-05-09T15:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/09\/hemingway-and-james-joyce-were-drinking-buddies-in-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:31:57","slug":"hemingway-and-james-joyce-were-drinking-buddies-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/09\/hemingway-and-james-joyce-were-drinking-buddies-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hemingway and James Joyce were drinking buddies in Paris. Joyce was thin and bespectacled; Hemingway was tall and strapping. When they went out Joyce would get drunk, pick a fight with a bigger guy in the bar and then hide behind Hemingway and yell, \u201cDeal with him, Hemingway. Deal with him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/ernest-hemingway\/trivia.html\" target=\"_blank\">[x]<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/newzerokaneda.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">newzerokaneda<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Between this and the story about him <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bestamericanpoetry.com\/the_best_american_poetry\/2009\/03\/hemingway-reassures-fitzgerald-about-his-penis.html\" target=\"_blank\">reassuring F. Scott Fitzgerald re dick size<\/a>, I\u2019m developing a picture of Hemingway as the mother hen of the disaffected white male literary set of the early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>He probably called up Steinbeck sometimes and was like I CAN\u2019T EVEN WITH THESE DIPSHITS and Steinbeck was all \u201cThat\u2019s what you get for living in Paris, asshole\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/copperbadge.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">copperbadge<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemingway and James Joyce were drinking buddies in Paris. Joyce was thin and bespectacled; Hemingway was tall and strapping. When they went out Joyce would get drunk, pick a fight with a bigger guy in the bar and then hide behind Hemingway and yell, \u201cDeal with him, Hemingway. Deal with him.\u201d [x] (via newzerokaneda) Between &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/09\/hemingway-and-james-joyce-were-drinking-buddies-in-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20582,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}