{"id":2547,"date":"2011-05-16T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2011-05-16T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:46:56","slug":"how-jane-auste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/how-jane-auste\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; How Jane Austen Taught Me to Be a Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704004004576270762735324994.html\">William Deresiewicz:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A graduate student at the time, I was as arrogant as they come and didn&#8217;t think there was much anyone could teach me about life\u2014especially not Jane Austen, the godmother of chick-lit. Imagine my surprise when she taught me not just how to grow up, but how to be a man.<br \/>\nLike so many guys, I thought a good conversation meant holding forth about all the supposedly important things I knew: books, history, politics. But I wasn&#8217;t just aggressively sure of myself. I was also oblivious to the feelings of the people around me, a bulldozer stuck in overdrive.<br \/>\nIn fact, I was a lot like Emma, the heroine of that first Austen novel I read\u2014was forced to read, actually, because I thought her fiction sounded trivial and boring. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2011\/05\/16\/jane-austen%E2%80%99s-guide-to-being-a-man\/\">Joe Carter at First Things<\/a>, whose Carter&#8217;s Theorem states &#8220;that all complex behavior of advanced mammals can be explained by reference to the novels of Jane Austen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Deresiewicz: A graduate student at the time, I was as arrogant as they come and didn&#8217;t think there was much anyone could teach me about life\u2014especially not Jane Austen, the godmother of chick-lit. Imagine my surprise when she taught me not just how to grow up, but how to be a man. Like so&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/how-jane-auste\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8221; How Jane Austen Taught Me to Be a Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-commonplace-book","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}