{"id":992,"date":"2008-09-14T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/?p=992"},"modified":"2008-09-18T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T17:40:51","slug":"rip-david-foster-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/rip-david-foster-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP David Foster Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Highgate, to read the shocking news that David Foster Wallace, author of <em>Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, <\/em>and<em> A Supposedly Fun Thing I&#8217;ll Never Do Again, <\/em>has hanged himself<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zero coverage on the BBC, or even the Guardian. I know he&#8217;s an American author and it&#8217;s a Sunday, but even so. Come on BBC, if you can report today that Kazakhstan has bought the rights to <em>The Vicar of Dibley<\/em>, you can flipping well manage a sentence or two to mark Mr Wallace&#8217;s passing. He&#8217;s hardly obscure.<\/p>\n<p>Just as well I subscribe to 3AM:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/dfw-rip\/\">http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/dfw-rip\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Highgate, to read the shocking news that David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and A Supposedly Fun Thing I&#8217;ll Never Do Again, has hanged himself. Zero coverage on the BBC, or even the Guardian. I know he&#8217;s an American author and it&#8217;s a Sunday, but even so. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-foster-wallace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}