{"id":112533,"date":"2022-06-25T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112533"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:59:23","slug":"hour-six-the-writers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-six-the-writers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour six: the writer\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book of short stories sat opened<br \/>\non a page of endless dialogue,<br \/>\nthe author having chosen<br \/>\nto portray his characters<br \/>\nthrough spoken word<br \/>\nand not by action or deed.<\/p>\n<p>The book of short stories sat opened<br \/>\nwhile the reader, tired<br \/>\nof absorbing dialogue, chose<br \/>\nto take a break to write<br \/>\na scene for himself,<br \/>\nA curious action indeed.<\/p>\n<p>As in Michel Tremblay\u2019s \u201cBelles-Soeurs,\u201d<br \/>\nhe wanted an act in which<br \/>\nthe actors spoke freely.<br \/>\nBut unlike \u201cHills LIke White Elephants\u201d<br \/>\nhe had not one ounce of<br \/>\nHemingway\u2019s skill.<\/p>\n<p>The book of short stories sat opened<br \/>\non the table beside the bottle<br \/>\nof scotch and the carton<br \/>\nof smokes next to the paper<br \/>\non which twas written<br \/>\n\u201cWriting bloody kills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book of short stories sat opened on a page of endless dialogue, the author having chosen to portray his characters through spoken word and not by action or deed. The book of short stories sat opened while the reader, tired of absorbing dialogue, chose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112554,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112533\/revisions\/112554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}