{"id":860,"date":"2008-05-29T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2008-05-29T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:01:00","slug":"first-person-confession-female-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/29\/first-person-confession-female-style\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Person Confession, Female Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD65L_-ECXI\/AAAAAAAABeo\/GSyWzeh8iCo\/s1600-h\/25mag-190.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD65L_-ECXI\/AAAAAAAABeo\/GSyWzeh8iCo\/s200\/25mag-190.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been more interested in the response to Gawker blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/25\/magazine\/25internet-t.html?ex=1369627200&amp;en=aeb087847cff0941&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">Emily Gould&#8217;s highly confessional 8,000-word cover story<\/a> in this weekend&#8217;s NYTimes than in her article itself, which bugged me mostly because I found it not very well written.  I was obsessed with the autobiographical as a field of study when in graduate school. I wonder what the scholars are saying &#8217;bout this one.<\/p>\n<p>In the popular realm:<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/behind_the_news\/obsessed_with_our_destroyers.php?page=all\">clever response<\/a> to the blogger takeover of prime old media real estate by my gal Alissa Quart over at CJR.  &#8220;Take back the word count,&#8221; cries Q.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2008\/05\/29\/gould\/\">this one<\/a>, by Salon&#8217;s Rebecca Traister, which urges, &#8220;So rather than being troubled by the fact that Gould &#8212; or Bushnell, or Bradshaw, or whoever &#8212; has the spotlight, why not question why so few other versions of femininity are allowed to share it?&#8221;<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br \/><\/span>What she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been more interested in the response to Gawker blogger Emily Gould&#8217;s highly confessional 8,000-word cover story in this weekend&#8217;s NYTimes than in her article itself, which bugged me mostly because I found it not very well written. I was obsessed with the autobiographical as a field of study when in graduate school. I wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}