{"id":22,"date":"2005-05-17T23:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2005-05-17T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T06:30:12","slug":"a-worthy-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"A Worthy Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Journalists are always talking about how they write to inform the public, to defend democracy, to champion the little guy against the corporate mogul, to create a better world.  I began my career 20 years ago, holding these high-minded rationales.  But over the years, as I turned to writing about the everyday lives of people, it dawned on me that these explanations had become props: I no longer wrote stories in order to right wrongs or change the world.  I wrote stories, as poet Rita Dove says, in order to feel.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the opening lines of Walt Harrington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s introduction to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At the Heart of It: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a beautiful collection of portraits from everyday life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Journalists are always talking about how they write to inform the public, to defend democracy, to champion the little guy against the corporate mogul, to create a better world. I began my career 20 years ago, holding these high-minded rationales. But over the years, as I turned to writing about the everyday lives of people, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Worthy Reminder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}