{"id":8825,"date":"2022-07-10T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2022-07-10T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T17:53:43","slug":"in-which-i-narrowly-avoid-the-zeitgeist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=8825","title":{"rendered":"in which i narrowly avoid the zeitgeist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a provocative headline: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/plaintext-hemingway-gradually-suddenly-zeitgeist\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Hemingway Gradually\u2014Then Suddenly\u2014Defined the Zeitgeist<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the article was not about Hemingway, in toto, defining anything; it&#8217;s about how much the phrase &#8220;gradually and then suddenly&#8221; is being used these days.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase is from <em>The Sun Also Rises<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHow did you go bankrupt?\u201d Bill asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo ways,\u201d Mike said. \u201cGradually and then suddenly.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then I worried that maybe I was one of the people turning this phrase into a cliche. I was definitely aware of the phrase (I&#8217;ve read the book several times), and I was fairly sure I&#8217;d used it somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>But, fortunately, a couple of quick searches produced no relevant results. Whew.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=6931\">I have my finger far from the pulse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F8825&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F8825&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a provocative headline: &#8220;How Hemingway Gradually\u2014Then Suddenly\u2014Defined the Zeitgeist.&#8221; Well, the article was not about Hemingway, in toto, defining anything; it&#8217;s about how much the phrase &#8220;gradually and then suddenly&#8221; is being used these days. The phrase is from The Sun Also Rises: \u201cHow did you go bankrupt?\u201d Bill asked. \u201cTwo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions\/8826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}