{"id":22151,"date":"2013-09-21T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22151"},"modified":"2013-09-13T22:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:23:45","slug":"a-writing-quote-for-saturday-again-from-junot-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/a-writing-quote-for-saturday-again-from-junot-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote For Saturday: (Again) from Junot Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cYou see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Junot Diaz<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Like last Saturday&#8217;s quote, this observation from Junot Diaz is so on the nail (in my humble opinion) that I just had to share it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep [&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-22151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151","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=22151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22405,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151\/revisions\/22405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}