{"id":6134,"date":"2014-01-12T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T10:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=6134"},"modified":"2014-01-12T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T10:17:53","slug":"preaching-advising-rebuking-reviling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/preaching-advising-rebuking-reviling\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching, advising, rebuking, reviling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry James on literary criticism (in a letter to Charles Eliot Norton, March 1873):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I do\u00a0 . . . believe in criticism, more than that hyperbolical speech of mine would seem to suggest.\u00a0\u00a0 What I meant to express was my sense of its being, latterly, vastly over-done.\u00a0 There is such a flood of precepts, and so few examples &#8211; so much preaching, advising, rebuking &amp; reviling, &amp; so little doing: so many gentlemen sitting down to dispose in half an hour of what a few have spent months &amp; years in producing. A single positive attempt, even with great faults, is worth generally most of the comments and amendments on it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry James on literary criticism (in a letter to Charles Eliot Norton, March 1873): I do\u00a0 . . . believe in criticism, more than that hyperbolical speech of mine would seem to suggest.\u00a0\u00a0 What I meant to express was my sense of its being, latterly, vastly over-done.\u00a0 There is such a flood of precepts, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","category-literature","p1","y2014","m01","d12","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}