{"id":677,"date":"2010-02-15T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2010\/testing-1-2-3-or-just-start-redeux\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:47:04","slug":"testing-1-2-3-or-just-start-redeux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2010\/testing-1-2-3-or-just-start-redeux\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing 1 2 3 or Just start, redeux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with an apology has begun to become cliche and,for this blog anyway, just redundant. <\/p>\n<p>But I am. Sorry for anyone who hung on, hoping I might return and to those who stumbled here accidentally and got&#8230;nothing. Blank sky , white wash.<\/p>\n<p>But mostly, I am sorry to me, myself for stopping. My fellow writer pal (one of many I&#8217;ve never met but have known in some deeper place from long ago) expressed the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.writingtosurvive.com\/files\/because_I_am_hungry_for_art.php\"><strong>hunger,<\/strong><\/a> exquisitely.<br \/>\nIt hurts me not to write. Not (just ;)) in some tortured &#8220;oh woe is the Writer &#8221; way. No I mean something much much more basic. It hurts my head, spinning muddled banalities. It hurts my heart, opening all the wrong doors to familiar ghosts &#8212; blues and lows that sink and sludge. It hurts my stomach, gurgling the junk food of laziness of mind and body.<\/p>\n<p>I know this. And yet I don&#8217;t or easily forget anyway. I can&#8217;t take back the forgetting.  <\/p>\n<p>All I can do is start. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with an apology has begun to become cliche and,for this blog anyway, just redundant. But I am. Sorry for anyone who hung on, hoping I might return and to those who stumbled here accidentally and got&#8230;nothing. Blank sky , white wash. But mostly, I am sorry to me, myself for stopping. My fellow writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,622],"tags":[1229,1230,671,300,1231,1232,961,989,1233,46],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wash","category-words","tag-blues","tag-cabin-fever","tag-depression","tag-hope","tag-laziness","tag-restarting","tag-return","tag-start","tag-try","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}