{"id":18,"date":"2006-02-10T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/most-sickening-sentence-frontrunner-for-2006-award"},"modified":"2006-02-10T20:09:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:09:41","slug":"most-sickening-sentence-frontrunner-for-2006-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/most-sickening-sentence-frontrunner-for-2006-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Sickening Sentence: Frontrunner for 2006 Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only February, but reading about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/books\/cl-et-frey6feb06,2,7040844.story\" target=\"_blank\">James Frey<\/a> debacle in the Los Angeles times, I came upon this stunner, describing Frey&#8217;s literary&nbsp;\u00a0manager (who has dropped him like a hot potato):<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Kassie lives in a world of smart and tasteful writers, and she has handled the situation with grace,&#8221;<\/strong> [ Brillstein-Grey Chief Executive Jon] Liebman said.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Fantastic. How did that little scumbag worm his way into Kassie&#8217;s world? My goodness! Why, by all accounts, Frey is an absolute vulgarian!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. Maybe I&#8217;m too sensitive. But when I read that sentence, I thought &#8220;Holy shit, bring me the smelling salts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only February, but reading about the James Frey debacle in the Los Angeles times, I came upon this stunner, describing Frey&#8217;s literary&nbsp;\u00a0manager (who has dropped him like a hot potato): &#8220;Kassie lives in a world of smart and tasteful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/most-sickening-sentence-frontrunner-for-2006-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}