{"id":506,"date":"2008-03-24T05:08:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2008-03-22T09:08:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T17:08:39","slug":"the-writing-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.&#8221; &#8212; Jessamyn West, <em>Saturday Review<\/em>, September 21, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.&#8221; &#8212; Alfred Kazin, <em>Think<\/em>, February 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.&#8221; &#8212; Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, September 21, 1957. &#8220;The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=506\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Writing Path&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotables"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}