{"id":873,"date":"2010-03-01T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2010-03-01T20:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:50:55","slug":"an-interview-with-rick-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/an-interview-with-rick-moody\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a doctor but I still want to save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just recalled one of my favorite quotes from anyone: Ricky Moody in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.com\/books\/01\/02\/25\/specials\/moody-audio.html\">an interview with the Times Book Review<\/a> stated his aspiration to &#8220;save lives&#8221; with his fiction. After all, why shoot for anything less?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I still want short stories to save lives. I want people to feel about the short story the way they feel about &#8220;Strawberry Fields Forever&#8221; by the Beatles, like their lives were changed by it in some way. And that requires I think a real commitment to dealing with . . . you know, the human passions and not being . . . not feeling that that&#8217;s in some way uncool.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just recalled one of my favorite quotes from anyone: Ricky Moody in an interview with the Times Book Review stated his aspiration to &#8220;save lives&#8221; with his fiction. After all, why shoot for anything less? I still want short stories to save lives. I want people to feel about the short story the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}