{"id":590,"date":"2007-05-22T22:37:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T03:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/05\/22\/finding-a-voice\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T04:15:05","slug":"finding-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/05\/22\/finding-a-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"finding a voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like pencil drawing:<br \/>\nas long as you think you know<br \/>\nwhat you are drawing<br \/>\nit&#8217;s too easy, derivative, uninspired.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens<br \/>\nand you don&#8217;t want to know, use<br \/>\nyour wrong hand<br \/>\nyour foot<br \/>\nspit.<\/p>\n<p>Now,<br \/>\nthe writer<br \/>\nhas to use<br \/>\nthe reader&#8217;s voice.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s like<br \/>\njuggling cats<br \/>\nby remote control.<\/p>\n<p>Ready?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like pencil drawing: as long as you think you know what you are drawing it&#8217;s too easy, derivative, uninspired. If that happens and you don&#8217;t want to know, use your wrong hand your foot spit. Now, the writer has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/05\/22\/finding-a-voice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boppin","category-on-poetry","category-on-the-process-of-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}