{"id":412,"date":"2007-01-23T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2007-01-23T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:05:40","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Words To Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A writer friend sent me the following quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you don&#8217;t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn&#8217;t very vital. If you don&#8217;t feel like you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don&#8217;t have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you are not trying to tell enough.<br \/>\n~ John Irving<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I might add that this is just as applicable to living in general as to writing in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer friend sent me the following quote: If you don&#8217;t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn&#8217;t very vital. If you don&#8217;t feel like you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words To Live By&#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":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotables","category-writing-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}