{"id":2829,"date":"2019-02-11T01:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T06:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2019-01-19T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:22:59","slug":"talk-to-the-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/02\/talk-to-the-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk to the Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of the reasons I write (there are many) is that persons simply grow weary of the sound of my voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like to tell stories\u2014some true, some not so. There are a few people in my life, see, e.g., my wife of 35+ years, who have already heard most of them. The same is true for my adult children. (This is one of the great things about having grandchildren: they haven&#8217;t heard all the stories yet.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These kind persons are tired of hearing my voice and my stories. Hence, I write. Sometimes I write the old stories; sometimes I write variations of the stories. The page, the computer screen, whatever, never tires of the same stories and their variations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One bonus: writing the stories or talking to the page allows other persons to hear them. Some of these other persons even pay me a little money (25\u00a2 or so) for the stories.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips One of the reasons I write (there are many) is that persons simply grow weary of the sound of my voice. I like to tell stories\u2014some true, some not so. There are a few people in my life, see, e.g., my wife of 35+ years, who have already heard most of them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,5],"tags":[347,128],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","category-writing","tag-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","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=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}