{"id":2983,"date":"2012-08-22T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/08\/reverence-and-conviction\/"},"modified":"2012-08-22T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T22:19:15","slug":"reverence-and-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/08\/reverence-and-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverence and Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a review of a new biography about the author David Foster Wallace in which the biographer, D.T. Max, chronicles Wallace&#39;s evolution as a writer.&#0160; I found this observation of special interest, and suggest that it&#39;s sentiment goes to the heart of any creative endeavor:<\/p>\n<p><em>Wallace\u2019s interest in&#8230; wordplay, mimicry and metaphysics yielded to a more earnest desire to communicate and connect, how a delight in cleverness and irony gave way to a call for writers who might treat \u201cplain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c316b99fe970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1137\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c316b99fe970b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017c316b99fe970b-500wi.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"1137\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a review of a new biography about the author David Foster Wallace in which the biographer, D.T. Max, chronicles Wallace&#39;s evolution as a writer.&#0160; I found this observation of special interest, and suggest that it&#39;s sentiment goes to the heart of any creative endeavor: Wallace\u2019s interest in&#8230; wordplay, mimicry and metaphysics yielded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}