{"id":171,"date":"2008-04-16T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=171"},"modified":"2008-04-16T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:03:40","slug":"we-write-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"We Write Because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>ITEM: We write because we must, because we are burdened day and night with stories that must be told. Sometimes, those tales, told to us by a muse that is often as much trickster as divine inspiration, get lost in the translation&#8230; We struggle to listen to that inner voice and convey what lies scattered there, on a field of battle strewn with the corpses of stories untold&#8230; Our hands move over the keyboard even as our minds reach for Valhalla.<br \/>\n<em>Bob Freeman<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spoken so much more eloquently than I ever could have, Bob reminds me why I write, why I should write, why I have to write.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if he could tell me how to pry the fornit off the muse and make them work together, instead of&#8230;uh&#8230;what it is they&#8217;re doing over there in the Royal all night.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITEM: We write because we must, because we are burdened day and night with stories that must be told. Sometimes, those tales, told to us by a muse that is often as much trickster as divine inspiration, get lost in the translation&#8230; We struggle to listen to that inner voice and convey what lies scattered there, on a field of battle strewn with the corpses of stories untold&#8230; Our hands move over the keyboard even as our minds reach for Valhalla.<br \/>\nBob Freeman<br \/>\nSpoken so much more eloquently than I ever could &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-pondering-on-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}