{"id":17535,"date":"2012-12-08T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:53:07","slug":"a-quote-for-saturday-from-katherine-mansfield-via-elizabeth-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/08\/a-quote-for-saturday-from-katherine-mansfield-via-elizabeth-knox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quote for Saturday&#8230;from Katherine Mansfield via Elizabeth Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked this one from Katherine Mansfield that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethknox.com\/\">Elizabeth Knox<\/a> mentioned in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/11\/fun-with-friends-helen-lowe-talks-with-fellow-authors-from-australia-and-new-zealand-todays-guest-is-elizabeth-knox\/\">interview on SF-Signal <\/a>the other week:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI shall tell everything, even how the laundry basket squeaked.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To me this speaks of the way really good writing makes a world real&#8212;it&#8217;s not about piling on descriptive detail, but making the details that are included really count, even if it&#8217;s something so small and seemingly ordinary as the squeak of a laundry basket. And &#8216;making it real&#8217; is what storytelling is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked this one from Katherine Mansfield that Elizabeth Knox mentioned in our interview on SF-Signal the other week: \u201cI shall tell everything, even how the laundry basket squeaked.\u201d To me this speaks of the way really good writing makes a world real&#8212;it&#8217;s not about piling on descriptive detail, but making the details that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17537,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions\/17537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}