{"id":930,"date":"2009-07-22T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T06:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/?p=930"},"modified":"2009-07-22T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T06:36:34","slug":"not-quite-what-i-was-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/not-quite-what-i-was-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite What I Was Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><i>Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure<\/i><\/h3>\n<p><b>by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser  <\/b><br \/>\n[cover name=notquitewhatiwasplanning]<\/p>\n<p>The editors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithmag.net\/\">SMITH Magazine<\/a> asked their readers to describe their lives in just six words. You might think this sounds like a crazy idea. Well, I&#8217;m not going to argue with that, but the responses they got sure are interesting. Some will make you think. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you say, &#8220;Wait, what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably easier to give you some examples. If you want more, SMITH Magazine has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithmag.net\/sixwords\/\">ever-growing collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope my obituary spells &#8220;debonair&#8221; correctly.<br \/>\nAging late bloomer yearns for do-over.<br \/>\nThe freaks, they always find me.<br \/>\nAfter Harvard, had baby with crackhead.<br \/>\nCatholic school backfired. Sin is in!<br \/>\nGirlfriend is pregnant, my husband said.<br \/>\nMy life&#8217;s a bunch of almosts.<br \/>\nMormon economist marries feminist. Worlds collide.<br \/>\nCheese is the essence of life.<\/p>\n<p>If you like these, you can also find some six-word stories at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.11\/sixwords.html\">Wired<\/a> that are from horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers. Some of them involve R-rated topics and language, plus a little politics.<\/p>\n<p>[starratingmulti id=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Where to Find It<\/h3>\n<p>[librarylist]<br \/>\n[librarydate]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure <\/p>\n<p>by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser [cover name=notquitewhatiwasplanning]<\/p>\n<p>The editors of SMITH Magazine asked their readers to describe their lives in just six words. You might think this sounds like a crazy idea. Well, I&#8217;m not going to argue with that, but [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,69],"tags":[39,95],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-nonfiction","tag-real-people","tag-writers","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}