{"id":2143,"date":"2004-12-02T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2010-06-29T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T19:37:43","slug":"more-from-frieda-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Frieda Hughes Speaking Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day-um.  <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/books\/news\/story.jsp?story=588080\">My respect for her keeps growing<\/a>.  Suddenly, she&#8217;s speaking out, she&#8217;s everywhere.  She sounds like an extraordinary woman.  A part of me knows that people will always be curious about her mother (Sylvia Plath), her father (Ted Hughes), etc. I mean, I&#8217;m curious about them.  I love them both as poets, and have read biographies of both of them.  Look at how I run my obsessions.  Cary Grant?  Fine &#8211; let&#8217;s read biographies.  Etc.  Her parents were 2 famous poets, her mother committed suicide, etc.  People will be interested.<\/p>\n<p>But the level of prurient interest, the insane passing-off of stupid Freudian theories, her mother&#8217;s name being <i>chiseled off her grave by some lunatic fan<\/i>, the biographies being written by authors who have grievances, bones to pick, something to prove, yadda yadda &#8230; I completely sympathize with Frieda&#8217;s wish to have her mother and her father left alone.  I&#8217;m with ya, woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day-um. My respect for her keeps growing. Suddenly, she&#8217;s speaking out, she&#8217;s everywhere. She sounds like an extraordinary woman. A part of me knows that people will always be curious about her mother (Sylvia Plath), her father (Ted Hughes), etc. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}