{"id":446426,"date":"2021-12-24T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T09:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=229363"},"modified":"2021-12-24T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T09:58:37","slug":"i-think-of-myself-as-attached-to-california-interviewing-joan-didion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/24\/i-think-of-myself-as-attached-to-california-interviewing-joan-didion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Think of Myself as Attached to California:\u201d Interviewing Joan Didion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my friends who were Californians and writers didn\u2019t approve of Joan Didion\u2019s essays about California, but they didn\u2019t say so publicly. Didion was too big and too famous to rebuke in a newspaper article or from the podium. The California she wrote about\u2014coastal California, for the most part\u2014 wasn\u2019t \u201ctheir\u201d California\u2014the Central Valley\u2014which  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/24\/i-think-of-myself-as-attached-to-california-interviewing-joan-didion\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/24\/i-think-of-myself-as-attached-to-california-interviewing-joan-didion\/\">&#8220;I Think of Myself as Attached to California:\u201d Interviewing Joan Didion<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/24\/i-think-of-myself-as-attached-to-california-interviewing-joan-didion\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my friends who were Californians and writers didn\u2019t approve of Joan Didion\u2019s essays about California, but they didn\u2019t say so publicly. Didion was too big and too famous to rebuke in a newspaper article or from the podium. The California she wro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446912,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446426\/revisions\/446912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}