{"id":591526,"date":"2023-01-28T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=591526"},"modified":"2023-01-28T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T12:57:00","slug":"blake-morrison-memoirists-like-me-are-accused-of-being-mercenary-and-opportunistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/blake-morrison-memoirists-like-me-are-accused-of-being-mercenary-and-opportunistic","title":{"rendered":"Blake Morrison: Memoirists like me are accused of being mercenary and opportunistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Morrison at home in south London.If you&#8217;re reading this, my sister is dead. I may be dead too, but that&#8217;s beside the point, for you if not for me. Many years ago I resolved not to write about her while she was alive, or rather not to publish anything that I had written. She &#8211; Gill &#8211; had walk-on parts, like a film extra, in two memoirs I published about our parents: And When Did You Last See Your Father? in 1993, and Things My Mother Never Told Me in 2002. That&#8217;s all it was: the odd look-in or passing mention. There was plenty to be said but not yet. Even if she had given me carte blanche, the page would have stayed blank. You can&#8217;t write an honest memoir when the subject is alive. At any rate I can&#8217;t. Death is the only permission.After those books about Mum and Dad came out, I was sometimes asked if I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re reading this, my sister is dead. I may be dead too, but that&#8217;s beside the point, for you if not for me. Many years ago I resolved not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}