{"id":21500,"date":"2013-07-20T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21500"},"modified":"2013-07-14T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T05:46:01","slug":"a-book-quote-for-saturday-from-ursula-le-guin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/a-book-quote-for-saturday-from-ursula-le-guin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Quote for Saturday: from Ursula Le Guin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Somebody asked Willie Nelson where he got his songs, and he said, &#8216;The air&#8217;s full of melodies, you just reach out&#8230;&#8217;\u00a0 The world&#8217;s full of stories, you just reach out.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Ursula Le Guin, <em>Steering The Craft<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Ursula Le Guin&#8217;s, <em>Steering The Craft, <\/em> a book on writing subtitled &#8220;Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew&#8221; is Absolutely My Favourite Work on the art, and craft, and bloodstained toil, and sheer joy of writing.<\/p>\n<p>I aim to bring you a few quotes from it over the next few weeks.\u00a0 <em>\ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Somebody asked Willie Nelson where he got his songs, and he said, &#8216;The air&#8217;s full of melodies, you just reach out&#8230;&#8217;\u00a0 The world&#8217;s full of stories, you just reach out.&#8221; ~ Ursula Le Guin, Steering The Craft &#8212; Ursula Le Guin&#8217;s, Steering The Craft, a book on writing subtitled &#8220;Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500","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=21500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21504,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions\/21504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}