{"id":816,"date":"2007-02-09T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2007-02-09T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T04:31:00","slug":"this-is-going-out-to-all-my-writer-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"This is going out to all my writer friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>True, I drink cheap wine. But I eat good meat. There is an expression for my condition: The wolf is at the door. But I want the wolf at the door. I am tired of living in a world without wolves.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Bowden\">Charles Bowden<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True, I drink cheap wine. But I eat good meat. There is an expression for my condition: The wolf is at the door. 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