{"id":9332,"date":"2018-09-08T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T19:04:57","slug":"stay-gold-ponyboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/08\/stay-gold-ponyboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay gold, Ponyboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/t-magazine\/outsiders-book-hinton-lena-dunham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"css-1rhpwdo ejekc6u0\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">The Enduring Spell of \u2018The Outsiders\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"css-4fjg9h ewc5vgb0\">S. E. Hinton\u2019s 1967 coming-of-age novel credited teenagers with a rich interior life. Here, a tribute to the book that created young adult fiction as we know it today.<\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"css-1baulvz\">Lena Dunham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncPM1dlNSdM\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">IT WAS FRESHMAN year of college and I fancied myself someone, well, fancy. Someone who loved fancy books and fancy men. Fancy bags and fancy restaurants. I was working overtime to appear unfazed, and it was moving along about as smoothly as the <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/02\/11\/sports\/sochi-2014-interactive-stories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sochi Olympics<\/a>. Across the Intro to Genealogy classroom sat a boy who looked like a man but was, by virtue of being 19, still a boy \u2014 dark hair and dark eyes, a denim jacket so stiff it looked starched. He barely spoke but knew all the answers, while I spoke all the time and knew none.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">I was leaving in the spring, transferring to a school that my mother considered more \u201cacademically rigorous,\u201d and it was my soon-to-be-outta-here sense of abandon that allowed me to approach him one day after class: \u201cHey, did you know you look like the lead singer of the Cure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">He looked at me quizzically. \u201cWho\u2019s that?\u201d he asked. I stuttered \u2014 the fact was, I didn\u2019t actually know. I\u2019d seen a photo of Robert Smith in another kid\u2019s dorm room and wasn\u2019t expecting to be questioned, but instead to receive the kind of insider approval that usually accompanied a display of hipster knowledge. (This was the privilege of not having to consider the consequences of any action, great or small, that is endemic to upper-middle-class white girls everywhere.) I stammered: \u201cYour hair is &#8230; I mean, your faces both kind of look &#8230;\u201d He stared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">I changed tactics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">\u201cI\u2019m transferring,\u201d I haughtily informed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">\u201cOh, are you?\u201d He jutted his chin out toward me: \u201cO.K., then &#8230; stay gold, Ponyboy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/t-magazine\/outsiders-book-hinton-lena-dunham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times The Enduring Spell of \u2018The Outsiders\u2019 S. E. Hinton\u2019s 1967 coming-of-age novel credited teenagers with a rich interior life. Here, a tribute to the book that created young adult fiction as we know it today. By Lena Dunham \ufeff IT WAS FRESHMAN year of college and I fancied myself someone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}