{"id":47820,"date":"2019-06-22T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47820"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:36:24","slug":"rules-for-writers-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/rules-for-writers-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a certain amount of selfishness<br \/>\nto be a writer.<\/p>\n<p>Like your teenage granddaughter,<br \/>\nyou have to ignore everyone around you,<br \/>\nlock yourself in your room,<br \/>\nrefuse to speak,<br \/>\neyes on screen,<br \/>\nfingers tapping furiously<\/p>\n<p>Like your cat,<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t be bothered<br \/>\nby someone else&#8217;s attitude,<br \/>\nby nos and do nots.<\/p>\n<p>Like your dog,<br \/>\ndemand to be let in the door,<br \/>\nto be fed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not always about someone else&#8211;<br \/>\nlover, friend, the needy, your child,<br \/>\nthat insistent dog.<br \/>\nSometimes it has to be about you<br \/>\nand the story you must write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a certain amount of selfishness to be a writer. Like your teenage granddaughter, you have to ignore everyone around you, lock yourself in your room, refuse to speak, eyes on screen, fingers tapping furiously Like your cat, you can&#8217;t be bothered by someone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47820","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48057,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47820\/revisions\/48057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}