{"id":11,"date":"2002-08-12T01:04:23-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-12T09:04:23+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=11"},"modified":"2002-08-12T01:04:23-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-12T09:04:23+00:00","slug":"why-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/08\/12\/why-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do&nbsp;anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote><p>You don&#8217;t write for the money, because if you do, you&#8217;re a monkey.  You don&#8217;t write for the fame, because if you do, you&#8217;re a monkey.  You don&#8217;t even write because you like to write, because if you do, you&#8217;re still a monkey.   You write because to NOT write is suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote><p class=\"source\"><cite>Stephen King<\/cite><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A true writer&mdash;as opposed to someone who&#8217;s only in it for the bucks, or who just want the Pointy Hat that says &ldquo;I sold something&rdquo;&mdash;can&#8217;t NOT write.  Stories are always unfolding behind your eyes, and the only way to get rid of them is to write them up and send them away.<\/p><\/blockquote><p class=\"source\"><cite>J. Michael Straczynski<\/cite><\/p>\n\n<p>These quotes from two guys who have a clue of what they&#8217;re talking about.  Don&#8217;t tell my boss (oh, go ahead and tell him&mdash;he already knows) but that&#8217;s how I feel about what I do.  Take away my job and I&#8217;ll just find another one doing the same thing.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t write for the money, because if you do, you&#8217;re a monkey. You don&#8217;t write for the fame, because if you do, you&#8217;re a monkey. You don&#8217;t even write because you like to write, because if you do, you&#8217;re still a monkey. You write because to NOT write is suicide.Stephen King A true writer&mdash;as&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}