{"id":4700,"date":"2014-03-24T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2014-03-24T00:07:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T05:07:38","slug":"but-it-wont-make-the-writing-on-girls-any-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/but-it-wont-make-the-writing-on-girls-any-better\/","title":{"rendered":"But it won&#8217;t make the writing on &#8216;Girls&#8217; any better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Dunham&#8217;s character on the HBO series &#8220;Girls&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/television\/2014\/03\/girls_recap_season_3_finale_two_plane_rides.html\">has been accepted into the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop<\/a>. This may be inspired by the fact that one of the show&#8217;s story editors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/sex-the-single-girls-and-their-news-dads_b122618\">has an MFA from the workshop<\/a>\u00a0(NSFW-ish, both for the explicitness endemic to most discussion about the series and a picture of said editor in hipster glasses).<\/p>\n<p>I would bet that even Iowa City is going to be a culture shock for the character. I wonder if there will be scenes set there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Dunham&#8217;s character on the HBO series &#8220;Girls&#8221;\u00a0has been accepted into the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop. This may be inspired by the fact that one of the show&#8217;s story editors has an MFA from the workshop\u00a0(NSFW-ish, both for the explicitness endemic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/but-it-wont-make-the-writing-on-girls-any-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}