{"id":5600,"date":"2013-10-20T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2013-10-20T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:53:37","slug":"john-twelve-hawks-im-not-james-frey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5600","title":{"rendered":"John Twelve Hawks: I&#8217;m not James Frey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/central-news.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"470\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/central-news.jpg\" alt=\"central-news\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/central-news.jpg 630w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/central-news-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Source: johntwelvehawks.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had email from John Twelve Hawks this afternoon. He had seen <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5572\">my recent blog post<\/a>, in which I mentioned speculation in some big-city literary circles that John Twelve Hawks is a pseudonym for James Frey. &#8220;&#8230; I can confirm &#8230; I&#8217;m not James Frey,&#8221; John Twelve Hawks writes in the email.<\/p>\n<p>He also included a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/books\/features\/69474\/\">a piece in New York magazine<\/a> (November 2010) that paints a very, um, interesting portrait of James Frey.<\/p>\n<p>I have a tremendous respect for John Twelve Hawks as a writer. For James Frey, none. You&#8217;ll see why I have such a low opinion of James Frey if you read the New York magazine piece.<\/p>\n<p>In my Googling on this subject, I have not previously come across a statement from John Twelve Hawks on this. For all I know, this blog post may be John Twelve Hawks&#8217; first public denial of any connection to James Frey. Frey, however, was very willing to milk the publicity and exploit John Twelve Hawks&#8217; reputation. Frey told the New York Post, &#8220;I will neither confirm nor deny that I am John Twelve Hawks.&#8221; Yeah, whatever, James Frey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: johntwelvehawks.com I had email from John Twelve Hawks this afternoon. He had seen my recent blog post, in which I mentioned speculation in some big-city literary circles that John Twelve Hawks is a pseudonym for James Frey. &#8220;&#8230; I can confirm &#8230; I&#8217;m not James Frey,&#8221; John Twelve Hawks writes in the email. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Twelve Hawks: I&#8217;m not James Frey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}