{"id":18636,"date":"2013-12-30T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-trouble-with-twitter-isnt-that-its-full-of\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:01:28","slug":"the-trouble-with-twitter-isnt-that-its-full-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-trouble-with-twitter-isnt-that-its-full-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The trouble with Twitter isn\u2019t that it\u2019s full of inanity and self-promoting jerks. The trouble is that it\u2019s a solution to a problem that shouldn\u2019t be solved. Eighty percent of the battle of writing involves keeping yourself in that cave: waiting out the loneliness and opacity and emptiness and frustration and bad sentences and dead ends and despair until the damn thing resolves into words. That kind of patience, a steady turning away from everything but the mind and the topic at hand, can only be accomplished by cultivating the habit of attention and a tolerance for solitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/11\/how-i-learned-to-love-twitter.html\">How Twitter Hijacked My Mind<\/a> \u2013 fantastic meditation by <em>New York Magazine<\/em> book critic <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kathrynschulz\">Kathryn Schulz<\/a>;\u00a0bonus points for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/13\/bukowski-blue-bird-animated\/\">the Bukowski reference<\/a>.\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble with Twitter isn\u2019t that it\u2019s full of inanity and self-promoting jerks. The trouble is that it\u2019s a solution to a problem that shouldn\u2019t be solved. Eighty percent of the battle of writing involves keeping yourself in that cave: waiting out the loneliness and opacity and emptiness and frustration and bad sentences and dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4QA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}