{"id":6917,"date":"2007-12-02T19:58:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/02\/richard-ford\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T19:58:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T19:58:59","slug":"richard-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2007\/12\/02\/richard-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Ford in yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/departments\/generalfiction\/story\/0,,2219832,00.html\">Graun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Writing doesn&#8217;t just come, it requires a lot of furrowing of my brow,&#8221; he says, which is one reason he has rarely written about some elements of his life &#8211; hunting and fishing, for example &#8211; that he would rather just do: &#8220;If I wrote about those things, I&#8217;d have to be thinking and thinking and thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is dyslexic, which he believes may account for his need to concentrate, in his view, particularly hard. &#8220;I have to work at making the things that I hear, and also the things that I read, break into my thinking, otherwise they can go right by me in a blur&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m familiar with that blur, it&#8217;s reassuring to have it articulated thus&#8230;.since I assumed a lack of sleep was at the root of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Ford in yesterday&#8217;s Graun: &#8220;Writing doesn&#8217;t just come, it requires a lot of furrowing of my brow,&#8221; he says, which is one reason he has rarely written about some elements of his life &#8211; hunting and fishing, for example &#8211; that he would rather just do: &#8220;If I wrote about those things, I&#8217;d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}