{"id":125,"date":"2006-04-24T23:05:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T03:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/25\/hesitant\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T23:52:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T03:52:19","slug":"hesitant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/24\/hesitant\/","title":{"rendered":"hesitant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>uh, sorry to interrupt your reading<br \/>\nI mean, I would have spoken earlier<\/p>\n<p>caught your attention I mean<br \/>\nbut you were on those other pages<br \/>\nreading something else<!--more--><br \/>\nand I could hardly expect you<br \/>\nto come here until you were<br \/>\nwell, ready<br \/>\nI guess you are<br \/>\nbecause, well, here you are<br \/>\nreading these words<br \/>\nthinking about what I am thinking<br \/>\nas I write this<br \/>\nOf course, you are reading this<br \/>\nafter I write it; that puts me ahead of you<br \/>\nbut I don&#8217;t mean to be disparaging<br \/>\nit is the job of writers to be ahead<br \/>\nto anticipate and after all,<br \/>\nsince we write before you<br \/>\nread, we are ahead.<br \/>\nYou know, when celebrities<br \/>\nread movie stars<br \/>\ngo up onto those stages<br \/>\nwhere most of them are really<br \/>\nquite ill at ease<br \/>\nwhen they go up to all that applause<br \/>\nto receive those awards<br \/>\nthey are really getting the awards for<br \/>\nreading to you what we writers have<br \/>\nwritten a long time before<br \/>\nyou saw it or they read it.<br \/>\nYou know: they are famous<br \/>\nbut our words made that happen<br \/>\nour imaginations created the whole thing<br \/>\nback in those boring little rooms<br \/>\nwhere all the world&#8217;s largest<br \/>\nbattles are first fought<br \/>\nin our heads<\/p>\n<p>Remember that next time you<br \/>\nchase a celebrity down the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uh, sorry to interrupt your reading I mean, I would have spoken earlier caught your attention I mean but you were on those other pages reading something else<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}