{"id":10791,"date":"2007-01-29T14:19:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/29\/my-favorite-train-wreck\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T08:51:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T13:51:47","slug":"my-favorite-train-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/29\/my-favorite-train-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"My favorite train wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever find yourself facing a situation raging out of control, almost certain a disaster lurks around the corner, all the while completely powerless to look away? It&#8217;s bad; you know it, and you can&#8217;t stop staring.<\/p>\n<p>I refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/docbrite.livejournal.com\/\">Poppy Z. Brite.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brite has so much talent&#8211;she&#8217;s written some great short stories and novels&#8211;and so few coping skills. To read her journal, I might think she was a colossal whiner. In fact, she&#8217;s probably quite charming and funny on her good days, just a bit lost at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Poppy raises herself out of this funk soon, heals those wounds, and carries on with what matters. As an author, there&#8217;s some narrative bouncing around those dark chasms she keeps locked tight, still clawing for the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever find yourself facing a situation raging out of control, almost certain a disaster lurks around the corner, all the while completely powerless to look away? It&#8217;s bad; you know it, and you can&#8217;t stop staring. I refer to Poppy Z. Brite. Ms. Brite has so much talent&#8211;she&#8217;s written some great short stories and novels&#8211;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}