{"id":77,"date":"2003-04-02T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2005-02-04T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T10:10:20","slug":"irving-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/02\/irving-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"irving quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two presently relevant quotes from John
\n Irving’s<\/a> A
\n Prayer for Own Meany<\/i><\/a> (author of The
\n World According to Garp<\/a><\/i> and The
\n Cider House Rules),<\/a><\/i> written in the 80s. The first is about the Reagan
\n Iran-contra schpeel, though rings truer now. The next was supposed to have been
\n said in 1961, looking back from 1987, within the novel.
\n "The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see
\n themselves as justified<\/i> to operate above the law – they disgrace democracy
\n by claiming that what they do they do for<\/i> democracy! They should be in
\n jail. They should be in Hollywood!"<\/i>
\n and
\n "’WE HAVE A GENERATION OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ANGRY TO LOOK FORWARD TO,’ Owen
\n said. ‘AND MAYBE TWO GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE A SHIT,’ he added."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two presently relevant quotes from John Irving’s A Prayer for Own Meany (author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules), written in the 80s. The first is about the Reagan Iran-contra schpeel, though rings truer now. The next was supposed to have been said in 1961, looking back from 1987, within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-1f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1685,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/peck-school-of-the-arts-uwm-open-house-this-saturday-kenilworth-sqare-east-milwaukee-wisconsin\/","url_meta":{"origin":77,"position":0},"title":"Peck School of the Arts, UWM Open House this Saturday. 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