{"id":42821,"date":"2025-01-13T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42821"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:19:42","slug":"ah-true-dat-a-writing-quote-from-victor-hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/ah-true-dat-a-writing-quote-from-victor-hugo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, True Dat &#8212; A Writing Quote from Victor Hugo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;A writer is a world trapped in a person.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>~ Victor Hugo, 1802 &#8211; 1805<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or sometimes &#8212; or so it feels, inside the writing life &#8212; <em>many<\/em> worlds trapped in a person, all contending to get out. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>As for Victor Hugo, he needs no introduction at all beyond <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> and <em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em>. Since he knew a thing or two about writing, we may accept his wisdom, if not (necessarily) the opines of yours truly. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42822 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Les-Miserables-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Les-Miserables-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Les-Miserables-91x150.jpg 91w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Les-Miserables.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42823\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A writer is a world trapped in a person.&#8221; ~ Victor Hugo, 1802 &#8211; 1805 Or sometimes &#8212; or so it feels, inside the writing life &#8212; many worlds trapped in a person, all contending to get out. \ud83d\ude00 As for Victor Hugo, he needs no introduction at all beyond Les Mis\u00e9rables and The Hunchback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821","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=42821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42824,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821\/revisions\/42824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}