{"id":826,"date":"2004-05-13T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:30:59","slug":"commonplace-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"“I Beat Mr. Turgenev.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another quote from Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was asked, by an interview, about another so-called “war writer”, who thought of himself as Tolstoy:<\/i><\/p>\n

He never hears a shot fired in anger, and he sets out to beat who? Tolstoy, an artillery officer who fought at Sevastopol, who knew his stuff, who was a hell of a man anywhere you put him — bed, bar, in an empty room where he had to think. I started out very quiet, and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard, and I beat Mr. deMaupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Mr. Stendahl, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another quote from Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was asked, by an interview, about another so-called “war writer”, who thought of himself as Tolstoy: He never hears a shot fired in anger, and he sets out to beat who? Tolstoy, an … 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":[15,9],"tags":[264,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111743,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/111743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}