{"id":667,"date":"2009-10-22T00:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=667"},"modified":"2009-10-20T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T20:19:29","slug":"a-new-essayist-appears-and-then-immediately-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"A new essayist appears! And then immediately disappears."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, David Foster Wallace was a name I had heard of, vaguely, before. I knew I&#8217;d heard of him from somewhere. But I got into a conversation with Airek at the office, and he gives me this note, telling me to go watch this Youtube video of him. I put it in my pocket, set it on my desk, and promptly forget about it.<br \/>\nA week or so later, I find the note and, having nothing in particular to watch while I eat, I used the information to pull up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GwS5pEfcQNk\">this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About, oh, 28 minutes and 2 seconds later, I&#8217;m on Amazon, ordering every book of essays by him I can find.<\/p>\n<p>I fucking LOVE a good essayist, and especially if you watch that video, you&#8217;ll know that David Foster Wallace was one. Those little tidbits are so fun, and so well realized, I can&#8217;t help but love them.<\/p>\n<p>A couple days later, I go up to Airek and I thank him for telling me to watch that, because it was awesome. And then he tells me David Foster Wallace killed himself.<br \/>\nThat kind of put a damper on things. It&#8217;s a shame. He had skills. One would assume he could have paid bills with them. But yeah&#8230; sad.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;ll see how me reading those books goes. I&#8217;m excited! But I also suck at the whole &#8220;Reading books&#8221; thing. So we&#8217;ll see how well it all goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, David Foster Wallace was a name I had heard of, vaguely, before. I knew I&#8217;d heard of him from somewhere. But I got into a conversation with Airek at the office, and he gives me this note, telling me to go watch this Youtube video of him. I put it in my pocket, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}