My brother sent me this, from a 2006 Stop Smiling interview with Kurt Vonegut:<\/p>\n
SS: You and your family long ago gravitated East. What KV: When my ancestors arrived, they were thunderstruck SS: Illinois.<\/p>\n KV: All right. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a fresh water person.<\/em><\/p>\n Antron advised me to start thinking about which I am – saltwater or freshwater. My answer isn’t immediate, not like last week. I think I’m going to hang back and see how I feel in a couple of months. Hindsight is proverbial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My brother sent me this, from a 2006 Stop Smiling interview with Kurt Vonegut: SS: You and your family long ago gravitated East. What is your theory about fresh water people versus salt-water people? KV: When my ancestors arrived, they were thunderstruck by all this land. They were right in the middle of it. Arable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine","category-im-feeling-emo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nis your theory about fresh water people versus
\nsalt-water people?<\/p>\n
\nby all this land. They were right in the middle of it.
\nArable land stretched out for hundreds of miles in all
\ndirections. So the land, the continent, was enough to
\nthink about. New York and San Francisco and West Coast
\npeople are oceanic really and feel very close to
\nEurope or to Asia and the people in the Middle West
\nare continental. One is not better than the other. It
\njust happens to be an interesting difference. Where
\ndid you grow up?<\/p>\n