{"id":1818,"date":"2023-10-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2023-10-19T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T14:36:18","slug":"e361-with-sean-michaels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/e361-with-sean-michaels\/","title":{"rendered":"E361 with SEAN MICHAELS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first met <a href=\"https:\/\/byseanmichaels.com\/\"><strong>Sean Michaels<\/strong><\/a> as a member of the grand jury for the Polaris Music Prize. He very modestly told me he was &#8220;working on a book.&#8221; That book, of course, was the Giller-winning Us Conductors. I got to speak to him about that book, and again when he released The Wagers (we did an event together and it recorded it to be two episodes). Sean&#8217;s newest, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/720406\/do-you-remember-being-born-by-sean-michaels\/9781039006751\">Do You Remember Being Born<\/a><\/strong>, is fantastic. Hope you enjoy our conversation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E361 Sean Michaels Oct 19 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1639905918&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Sean Michaels as a member of the grand jury for the Polaris Music Prize. He very modestly told me he was &#8220;working on a book.&#8221; That book, of course, was the Giller-winning Us Conductors. I got to speak to him about that book, and again when he released The Wagers (we did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,23,1131,31,20,24,16,13,170,34,484],"class_list":{"0":"post-1818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-cfmu","9":"tag-do-you-remember-being-born","10":"tag-fiction","11":"tag-get-lit","12":"tag-hamilton","13":"tag-jamie-tennant","14":"tag-literature","15":"tag-mcmaster-university","16":"tag-penguin-random-house","17":"tag-sean-michaels","18":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}