{"id":2106,"date":"2004-11-10T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:50:34","slug":"un-guessed-quote-5-this-has-now-been-guessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2106","title":{"rendered":"Un-guessed quote # 5 \u2013 This has now been guessed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: It’s been guessed. It is “The Sportswriter” by Richard Ford. I highly recommend his work. The sequel to “THe Sportswriter” was “Independence Day”, another great book.<\/i><\/p>\n

Here is this one. <\/a>Not one guess yet.<\/p>\n

Like I said: this author writes beautifully, sensitively, about being a man, what it means to be a man in this day and age. He’s a contemporary writer, very successful.<\/p>\n

The book this quote is from is first of a two-book series about this one character. If I say to you: “Bill Simmons” – that will give you a clue as to the title of this book.<\/p>\n

The SECOND book, with a great title, describes how the character becomes a real estate agent. It’s all about this guy’s life, his divorce, his love affairs, what it means to be a man …<\/p>\n

The author can WRITE, man. There are certain sentences that just stick in your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: It’s been guessed. It is “The Sportswriter” by Richard Ford. I highly recommend his work. The sequel to “THe Sportswriter” was “Independence Day”, another great book. Here is this one. Not one guess yet. Like I said: this author … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178148,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/178148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}