{"id":82,"date":"2013-01-17T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2022-12-21T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T15:16:39","slug":"i-love-girl-excellent-short-story-by-simon-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/i-love-girl-excellent-short-story-by-simon-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Girl (Excellent Short Story by Simon Rich)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Rich is an excellent writer who writes funny stuff for things. One such funny thing he wrote was for a short story published in the New Yorker titled<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2012\/12\/17\/121217sh_shouts_rich\"> I Love Girl<\/a>. It&#8217;s written in the voice of a cave man struggling with self identity and wanting for the affections of Girl. It&#8217;s a quick and funny read and I highly recommend it. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I love Girl. I will explain what that is. When I look at her, I feel sick like I am going to die. I have never had the Great Disease (obviously, because I am still alive). But my uncle described it to me. He said there is a tightness in your chest, you cannot breathe, and you have anger toward the Gods. I was going to ask him to explain more, but then he died. My point is: Girl makes me feel this way, like I am going to die. There are many women in the world. By last count, seven. But she is the only one I ever loved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tell me you don&#8217;t want to read more of that. Simon Rich also happens to have a new book coming out January 22nd (2013 for those reading this in the FUTURE) titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316219398\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thestruwrit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316219398\">The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thestruwrit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0316219398\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. I can only hope it&#8217;s as good as this short story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Rich is an excellent writer who writes funny stuff for things. One such funny thing he wrote was for a short story published in the New Yorker titled I Love Girl. It&#8217;s written in the voice of a cave man struggling with self identity and wanting for the affections of Girl. It&#8217;s a quick and funny read and I highly recommend it. Here is an excerpt: I love Girl. I will explain what that is. When I look at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/i-love-girl-excellent-short-story-by-simon-rich\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Blog Post: I Love Girl (Excellent Short Story by Simon Rich) http:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-1k","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,23,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-1k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}