{"id":288,"date":"2007-06-14T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2007\/06\/14\/feel-good-nihilism\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:50:00","slug":"feel-good-nihilism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2007\/06\/14\/feel-good-nihilism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Feel-good nihilism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you put that on a theatre poster immediately? &#8220;Feel-good nihilism &#8211; Faber &amp; Faber&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I think it was this nice man from Faber but it could&#8217;ve been the National Theatre. Ah, who doesn&#8217;t get those mixed up? After my play, I got to talk to a sea of faces in an interview, people I&#8217;ve admired, people I&#8217;m daunted by and most of all people who were nine people, a sea of nine people. When you walk in expecting three, and when you&#8217;re nervous of three, facing nine in a circle doesn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>But they were great. I was so disappointed when my time was up and we had to stop talking. <\/p>\n<p>Though I think now I should stop typing. I&#8217;m not being the clearest man in the world, am I? But I wanted to tell you that this day was spectacular. I wish you could&#8217;ve been there, I&#8217;m rocked that I was. I&#8217;ve just been sitting in a theatre with an audience laughing at my jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful what you wish for, because it&#8217;s fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for all the encouragement,<br \/>William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you put that on a theatre poster immediately? &#8220;Feel-good nihilism &#8211; Faber &amp; Faber&#8221;. Actually, I think it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2007\/06\/14\/feel-good-nihilism\/\">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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-4E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}