{"id":17897,"date":"2012-12-23T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=17897"},"modified":"2012-12-22T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T09:47:09","slug":"a-sunday-quote-from-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/a-sunday-quote-from-neil-gaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday Quote from Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Nobody gets to be you, except you. Nobody has your point of view, except you. Nobody gets to bring to the worlds the things that you get to bring to the world \u2013 uniquely get to bring to the world \u2013 except you.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>So saying there are enough writers out there, enough directors out there, enough people with a point of view \u2013 well, yeah, there are \u2013 but none of them are you, none of this them is going to make the art that you\u2019re going to make, none of them will change people and change the world in the way that you could change it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So if you believe somebody who says, \u2018No, no, we\u2019ve got enough of those,\u2019 then all it means is you\u2019re giving up your chance to change the world the way only you can change it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>: in response to a young woman who cited being told she shouldn\u2019t pursue being an artist because there are too many artists in the world already.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nobody gets to be you, except you. Nobody has your point of view, except you. Nobody gets to bring to the worlds the things that you get to bring to the world \u2013 uniquely get to bring to the world \u2013 except you. So saying there are enough writers out there, enough directors out there, [&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-17897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897","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=17897"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17903,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897\/revisions\/17903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}