{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Roman Sturgis","home_page_url":"https://romansturgis.com","description":"Roman Sturgis","author":{"name":"Roman Sturgis"},"items":[{"id":"https://romansturgis.com/writing/f/writing-writer-written","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/647d8578-9aaf-4a1d-b1ca-0d493cb486b5/01_redwood_upward.jpg\"/><p>Yesterday, I was working with a clever high school junior who is writing an essay in response to Oscar Wilde’s parable “The Happy Prince”. Something he said struck me as particularly poignant given the world we find ours...</p>","url":"https://romansturgis.com/writing/f/writing-writer-written","title":"Writing Writer Written","summary":"Yesterday, I was working with a clever high school junior who is writing an essay in response to Oscar Wilde’s parable “The Happy Prince”. Something he said struck me as particularly poignant given the world we find ours...","date_modified":"2026-10-12T17:34:14Z"},{"id":"https://romansturgis.com/writing/f/junipers","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/647d8578-9aaf-4a1d-b1ca-0d493cb486b5/Golden%20Juniper%20Valley%20Sunset.png\"/><p>Before his first year at Texas, Bruce and I spent most of the summer on our family’s property in Round Top, improving the land for grazing.  Our mother had passed on Fourth of July, and we just had to get out of the hous...</p>","url":"https://romansturgis.com/writing/f/junipers","title":"Junipers","summary":"Before his first year at Texas, Bruce and I spent most of the summer on our family’s property in Round Top, improving the land for grazing.  Our mother had passed on Fourth of July, and we just had to get out of the hous...","date_modified":"2026-10-06T06:21:17Z"},{"id":"https://romansturgis.com/writing/f/the-andy-dufresne-method","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/647d8578-9aaf-4a1d-b1ca-0d493cb486b5/Screenshot%202026-10-05%20at%204.13.17%E2%80%AFPM.png\"/><p>I love the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Originally written as a novella, Shawshank is, in my opinion, Stephen King's greatest film adaptation. Thanksgiving weekend, semi-comatose on the couch, flipping through the cha...</p>","url":"https://romansturgis.com/writing/f/the-andy-dufresne-method","title":"The Andy Dufresne Method","summary":"I love the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Originally written as a novella, Shawshank is, in my opinion, Stephen King's greatest film adaptation. Thanksgiving weekend, semi-comatose on the couch, flipping through the cha...","date_modified":"2026-10-05T21:14:15Z"}]}