{"id":144444,"date":"2026-04-06T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144444"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:02:36","slug":"flannery-oconnor-for-easter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144444","title":{"rendered":"Flannery O\u2019Connor for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cA story that is any good can\u2019t be reduced, it can only be expanded. A story is good when you continue to see more and more in it, and when it continues to escape you. In fiction two and two is always more than four.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013Flannery O\u2019Connor, Mystery and Manners (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1957) p. 102<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"tl\" dir=\"ltr\">Gustave Moreau, Christ and Mary Magdalene (Noli me Tangere), c.1889 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mnshxOW0XS\">pic.twitter.com\/mnshxOW0XS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Solas (@solas_na_greine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solas_na_greine\/status\/2041142063824089564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA story that is any good can\u2019t be reduced, it can only be expanded. A story is good when you continue to see more and more in it, and when it continues to escape you. In fiction two and two<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,113,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-poetry-literature","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144446,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144444\/revisions\/144446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}