{"id":22745,"date":"2016-06-08T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=22745"},"modified":"2016-06-06T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:42:10","slug":"stunt-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/stunt-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"STUNT WRITER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>A.J. Jacobs<\/strong><\/span> read an encyclopedia for a year and wrote about it. Lee Kravitz apologized to his old enemies for a year and wrote about it. Another writer lived off dumpster food for a year. Ben Ryder Howe bought a Korean deli, ran it for two years, and wrote about it. (That was good: <em>My Korean Deli<\/em>.) I buy buildings, own them for decades, and write about that. That&#8217;s less contrived than the other guys, I think.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/stunt-writer-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"stunt writer\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/stunt-writer-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/stunt-writer.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>When a tenant with Alzheimer\u2019s forgets to pay her rent, I put her checkbook right in front of her, and she writes. Then she moves out, because I can&#8217;t be her full-time nurse.<\/p>\n<p>A tenant uses too many fresheners in the washing machine and clogs it up. Drama? Not quite. This paragraph doesn&#8217;t make the cut.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Philip Roth<\/strong><\/span> was jealous Primo Levi had a profession &#8212; chemist &#8212; to write about. It&#8217;s hard writing about nothing. I did that when I was young and failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.J. Jacobs read an encyclopedia for a year and wrote about it. Lee Kravitz apologized to his old enemies for a year and wrote about it. Another writer lived off dumpster food for a year. Ben Ryder Howe bought a Korean deli, ran it for two years, and wrote about it. (That was good: My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22745"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24528,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745\/revisions\/24528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}