{"id":1138,"date":"2012-06-14T07:41:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-06-14T07:41:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:41:29","slug":"yet-another-reason-for-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/06\/yet-another-reason-for-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Reason for Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I discover another reason for writing &#8211; the keyboard has an infinite attention span.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last night I discovered another reason why I like to write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The keyboard has an infinite attention span.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I sometimes tell my stories (fiction and non-fiction) to my wife. After a few minutes, she usually tells me, &#8220;enough.&#8221; I have to quit. It isn&#8217;t just my wife. Other people I know grow bored of my stories.<\/p>\n<p>My computer keyboard has never told me, &#8220;enough.&#8221; It sits there and clicks and clacks hour after hour and story after story. It doesn&#8217;t matter how good or bad the story I am writing, the keyboard just sits there and listens to me. I like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I discover another reason for writing &#8211; the keyboard has an infinite attention span. Last night I discovered another reason why I like to write: The keyboard has an infinite attention span. I sometimes tell my stories (fiction and non-fiction) to my wife. After a few minutes, she usually tells me, &#8220;enough.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}