{"id":6919,"date":"2007-08-28T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T12:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2013-06-08T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T14:28:44","slug":"a-must-read-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6919","title":{"rendered":"Owen Wilson: A Sunbeam in the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slantmagazine.com\/house\/2007\/08\/a-sunbeam-in-the-abyss\/\">By Matt Zoller Seitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A thoughtful and really moving piece of writing.  Thank you, Matt.  I&#8217;ve been staying away from most commentary about Owen Wilson (and all the simplistic and ignorant attitudes about fame, comedians, and depression &#8211; in particular &#8211; that are ususally par for the course with such commentary) &#8211; because I knew it would grate on my nerves. Your piece is affirming and sensitive &#8211; not just about Wilson, and what you picked up on in his personality &#8211; but also about depression.   For me, he&#8217;s always been a bright spot in any movie he shows up in.  Unlike the folks who somehow find this ODD, in lieu of his suicide attempt &#8211; it makes perfect sense to me.  Despair doesn&#8217;t look just one way.  And one is not incompatible with the other.  Let&#8217;s hope he recovers, and can continue to be productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Zoller Seitz. A thoughtful and really moving piece of writing. Thank you, Matt. I&#8217;ve been staying away from most commentary about Owen Wilson (and all the simplistic and ignorant attitudes about fame, comedians, and depression &#8211; in particular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6919\">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":[7],"tags":[345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919"}],"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=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68239,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions\/68239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}