{"id":537,"date":"2015-05-26T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T23:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergoi.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2016-02-17T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:50:12","slug":"flannery-oconnor-is-getting-her-own-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Flannery O&#8217;Connor Is Getting Her Own Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s newly announced <a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/news\/2015-05-26\/flannery-oconnor-honored-new-usps-stamp\">stamp<\/a> series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/09\/16\/my-dear-god\">here is a link<\/a> to a <em>New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>article comprised of excerpts from her journal as a young writer participating in the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop in 1946. Some of it reads like a portrait of the artist as a young moralist, with much self-deprecation and guilt, but nevertheless much more lucid than anything I wrote at her age (21).<\/p>\n<p>She feeds off her guilt, as do the characters in her stories:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The intellectual &amp; artistic delights God gives us are visions &amp; like visions we pay for them; &amp; the thirst for the vision doesn\u2019t necessarily carry with it a thirst for the attendant suffering. Looking back I have suffered, not my share, but enough to call it that but there\u2019s a terrific balance due.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/09\/16\/my-dear-god\">rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In honor of Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s newly announced stamp series, here is a link to a New Yorker\u00a0article comprised of excerpts from her journal \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=537\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-8F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/OConnor.jpg?fit=548%2C329&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}