{"id":4031,"date":"2011-04-02T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2011-04-02T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:54:33","slug":"edith-wharton-inventive-repair-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=4031","title":{"rendered":"Edith Wharton, inventive repair in literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edith Wharton in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edithwharton.org\/\">The Mount<\/a> library 1905.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edith_Wharton_in_The_Mount_library_1905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Edith_Wharton_in_The_Mount_library_1905\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edith_Wharton_in_The_Mount_library_1905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from\u00a0Edith Wharton&#8217;s &#8220;Copy&#8221;: A Dialogue,\u00a0<em>Scribner&#8217;s Magazine<\/em> 27 (June 1900):<\/p>\n<p>VENTNOR. But the time comes when one sends for the china-mender, and has the bits riveted together, and turns the cracked side to the wall &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>MRS. DALE. And denies that the article was ever damaged?<\/p>\n<p>VENTNOR. Eh? Well, the great thing, you see, is to keep one&#8217;s self out of reach of the housemaid&#8217;s brush.\u00a0<em>(A pause.)<\/em> If you&#8217;re married you can&#8217;t &#8212; always.\u00a0<em>(Smiling.)<\/em> Don&#8217;t you hate to be taken down and dusted?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5scriboct00frd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"5scriboct00frd\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5scriboct00frd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edith Wharton in The Mount library 1905. Excerpt from\u00a0Edith Wharton&#8217;s &#8220;Copy&#8221;: A Dialogue,\u00a0Scribner&#8217;s Magazine 27 (June 1900): VENTNOR. But the time comes when one sends for the china-mender, and has the bits riveted together, and turns the cracked side to the wall &#8212; MRS. DALE. And denies that the article was ever damaged? VENTNOR. Eh? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}