{"id":233575,"date":"2014-01-08T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/08\/when-someone-tells-a-fanfiction-writer-that\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:23:49","slug":"when-someone-tells-a-fanfiction-writer-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/08\/when-someone-tells-a-fanfiction-writer-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When someone tells a fanfiction writer that they\u2019re \u201cnot a real writer,\u201d I say to that person, \u201cYou don\u2019t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.\u201d I do think there\u2019s an innocent bravery to saying, \u201cI\u2019m going to write another Sherlock Holmes story,\u201d but of course it\u2019s already a new Sherlock Holmes the moment you start writing it. It\u2019s not Doyle\u2019s. It\u2019s yours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Jonathan Lethem, An Interview with Jonathan Lethem<\/p>\n<p>Fic:Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World by Anne Jamison<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/merindab.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">merindab<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone tells a fanfiction writer that they\u2019re \u201cnot a real writer,\u201d I say to that person, \u201cYou don\u2019t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.\u201d I do think there\u2019s an innocent bravery &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/08\/when-someone-tells-a-fanfiction-writer-that\/\" 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":[247,5493,592,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233575"}],"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=233575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}