{"id":589,"date":"2007-07-20T16:57:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T23:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/a-softer-snippet\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T23:57:51","slug":"a-softer-snippet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2007\/07\/20\/a-softer-snippet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Softer Snippet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Comeau, who writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/index.php\">A Softer World<\/a> and who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia (a place I hear good things about constantly), also has a blog, which is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/oqindex.php\">Overqualified<\/a>, and which is beautiful and funny and often meaningful.  He has also just released a new book of short stories called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looseteeth.ca\/itstoolate\/\">It&#8217;s too late to say I&#8217;m sorry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/oq-display.php?id=63\">most recent OQ entry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Late at night, drunk, our language changes. Our adjectives shift, becoming stronger, more romantic. Our verbs become more clear, more specific, occasionally more desperate. They change even when we&#8217;re talking of simple things, like eating an apple if you will excuse my example. In the day we simply eat an apple, but late at night, while my wife sleeps, I tell another woman how I am piercing the apple with my teeth. Then I am cutting flesh from it and laying those pieces on my tongue. I am imagining that its flavors are hers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Comeau, who writes A Softer World and who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia (a place I hear good things about constantly), also has a blog, which is called Overqualified, and which is beautiful and funny and often meaningful. He has also just released a new book of short stories called It&#8217;s too late to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}