{"id":1309,"date":"2013-01-21T01:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T06:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2013-01-14T08:50:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:50:29","slug":"something-i-wrote-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/01\/something-i-wrote-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Something I Wrote and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>As a writer and a person, I find it important to differentiate between me and something I wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I write a lot of things. Some of the things I write, especially those I write a my day job, are reviewed by others. I find one statement helps me and the reviewers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is something I wrote. It is not me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>This helps me<\/strong>: when people tear apart the thing I wrote, I am not hurt. I am standing far enough back to listen to what they are saying about what I wrote to make it better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This helps the reviewer<\/strong>: the vast majority of people I have ever met dislike tearing a person to shreds. Hence, they don&#8217;t provide the type of feedback that will improve the piece of writing. Once I remove myself from the piece of writing, they are free to shred it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips As a writer and a person, I find it important to differentiate between me and something I wrote. I write a lot of things. Some of the things I write, especially those I write a my day job, are reviewed by others. I find one statement helps me and the reviewers: This [&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":[128],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}