{"id":480,"date":"2011-01-22T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T10:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2011-01-22T06:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T10:45:57","slug":"rereading-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Rereading Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll probably have more to say about this when I&#8217;m done, but I&#8217;m in the process of rereading my first published novel, <em>Wilderness<\/em>, written 20 years ago, because Tom De Haven is teaching it in his American Fantastica class at VCU, and I&#8217;m guesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Except for a few scenes I draw upon for &#8220;greatest hits&#8217; readings, I haven&#8217;t reread the novel.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun how often it surprises me.\u00c2\u00a0 The characters certainly smoke a lot of cigarettes and have red-hot libidos.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to know I&#8217;ve gotten better, I remind myself as I read, but the damn thing does keep me turning the pages.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s just see if it can make me cry\u00e2\u20ac\u201done way or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll probably have more to say about this when I&#8217;m done, but I&#8217;m in the process of rereading my first published novel, Wilderness, written 20 years ago, because Tom De Haven is teaching it in his American Fantastica class at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}