{"id":56,"date":"2005-05-13T08:32:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T12:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/05\/13\/wise-old-men\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T12:32:28","slug":"wise-old-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/05\/13\/wise-old-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Old Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a667'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the West Coast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\">the New Yorker<\/a><br \/>\narrives late in the week.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, I didn&#8217;t see this elegy by<br \/>\nMr. Slaughterhouse Five himself until my morning commute:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">JOE HELLER<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>True story, Word of Honor:<br \/>\nJoseph Heller, an important and funny writer<br \/>\nnow dead,<br \/>\nand I were at a party given by a billionaire<br \/>\non Shelter Island.<br \/>\nI said, &#8220;Joe, how does it make you feel<br \/>\nto know that our host only yesterday<br \/>\nmay have made more money<br \/>\nthan your novel, &#8216;Catch-22&#8217;<br \/>\nhas earned in its entire history?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd Joe said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got something he can never have.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I said, &#8220;What on earth could that be, Joe?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd Joe said, &#8220;The knowledge that I&#8217;ve got enough.&#8221;<br \/>\nNot bad!&nbsp; Rest in peace!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the West Coast, the New Yorker arrives late in the week.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, I didn&#8217;t see this elegy by Mr. Slaughterhouse Five himself until my morning commute: JOE HELLER True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}