{"id":513,"date":"2009-02-17T04:44:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=513"},"modified":"2009-02-17T04:44:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:44:01","slug":"the-artists-best-work-versus-most-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/02\/17\/the-artists-best-work-versus-most-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"The artist&#8217;s BEST work versus most popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several biographer&#8217;s and critics claim that C.S. Lewis&#8217;s very best book was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0156904365\/\">Till We Have Faces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He himself throught so, preferring it even to his earlier favourite, Perelandra. Ironically it had a poorer reception than any other story he had written.<\/p>\n<p>-Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings, p.245<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beethoven was in a similar situation. His seventh symphony was very popular, but his eighth was not so warmly received. When asked why that was, he replied, &#8220;Because it&#8217;s better!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several biographer&#8217;s and critics claim that C.S. Lewis&#8217;s very best book was Till We Have Faces. He himself throught so, preferring it even to his earlier favourite, Perelandra. Ironically it had a poorer reception than any other story he had written. -Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings, p.245 Beethoven was in a similar situation. His seventh symphony &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/02\/17\/the-artists-best-work-versus-most-popular\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The artist&#8217;s BEST work versus most popular&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}