{"id":5766,"date":"2012-04-27T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2012-05-05T07:48:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T14:48:43","slug":"singular-first-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/singular-first-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Singular First Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 2012<\/p>\n<h3>We catch up with John Irving as he prepares to release his new novel,<em> In One Person<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p>Interview by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you had a pulse in 1999, you were bombarded by \u201cGood night you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.\u201d The catch phrase comes from the movie <em>The Cider House Rules<\/em>, based on John Irving\u2019s 1985 bestseller. It starred Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, and Sir Michael Caine.<\/p>\n<p>And who doesn\u2019t smile upon hearing \u201cGarp bit Bonkie\u201d from Irving\u2019s 1978 bestseller<em> The World According to Garp<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>What quip from Irving\u2019s new book will be the meme that will define 2012?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Singular%20First%20Person.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/john-irvingweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5867\" title=\"john-irvingweb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/john-irvingweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/john-irvingweb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/john-irvingweb-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2012<br \/>\nWe catch up with John Irving as he prepares to release his new novel, <em>In One Person.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5812,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}