{"id":1928,"date":"2016-08-18T08:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T12:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2016-08-20T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:53:10","slug":"oscar-wilde-on-artistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Wilde on artistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve put my genius into my life; I&#8217;ve only put my talent into my works.<\/li>\n<li>A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.<\/li>\n<li>There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.<\/li>\n<li>Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.<\/li>\n<li>When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.<\/li>\n<li>The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.<\/li>\n<li>The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.<\/li>\n<li>This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.<\/li>\n<li>The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.<\/li>\n<li>The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @ <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve put my genius into my life; I&#8217;ve only put my talent into my works. A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Good artists exist simply in what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}