{"id":1509,"date":"2012-03-26T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2012-05-24T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:32:40","slug":"im-not-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/03\/im-not-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s already a Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to an interview with an author and thinking, &#8220;How can I write so others want to read what I am saying?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought&#8230;I can&#8217;t. I am nearly the last person who reads this blog, and that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>My books that I write are not much better, as far as readership goes.<\/p>\n<p>But I can write.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s like flying. I can fly. Should that be enough?<\/p>\n<p>I can dance. Shouldn&#8217;t that be enough?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessariliy need the readers. Art is art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that. There&#8217;s already a Shakespeare. I was listening to an interview with an author and thinking, &#8220;How can I write so others want to read what I am saying?&#8221; And then I thought&#8230;I can&#8217;t. I am nearly the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/03\/im-not-shakespeare\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}