{"id":811,"date":"2023-11-05T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2023-11-05T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:18:30","slug":"gib-strange-has-something-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"GIB STRANGE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thursday Nov 9th @ 7:30pm, Gib Strange will read a letter of his own creation at the next <em><strong>To Whom It May Concern<\/strong><\/em>. Knowing Gib, it will be something to think about long after the fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gib Strange is a writer living in Washington. Poet Dennis McBride has\u00a0described him as, &#8220;a kind of everyman&#8217;s Kierkegaard&#8230;\u00a0His domestic genius is his ability to evoke sympathy for the absurd in the tragic comedy of being human.&#8221; Comic Brett Emerson has described him as &#8220;Ed Gein doing ASMR.&#8221; He is the author of the audiobook\u00a0<em>Notes From the Uncanny Valley<\/em>, available at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/notesfromtheuncannyvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/notesfromtheuncannyvalley.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/stranger-and-I-look-toward-a-brighter-future.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/stranger-and-I-look-toward-a-brighter-future-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/stranger-and-I-look-toward-a-brighter-future-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/stranger-and-I-look-toward-a-brighter-future-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/stranger-and-I-look-toward-a-brighter-future-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/stranger-and-I-look-toward-a-brighter-future-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/stranger-and-I-look-toward-a-brighter-future.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Nov 9th @ 7:30pm, Gib Strange will read a letter of his own creation at the next To Whom It May Concern. Knowing Gib, it will be something to think about long after the fact. Gib Strange is a writer living in Washington. Poet Dennis McBride has\u00a0described him as, &#8220;a kind of everyman&#8217;s Kierkegaard&#8230;\u00a0His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,7,55,53],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gib-strange","tag-letters","tag-new-prospect-theatre","tag-uncanny-valley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readyourletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}