{"id":24440,"date":"2012-01-08T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/you-come-to-grips-with-the-fact-that-writing\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T13:00:05","slug":"you-come-to-grips-with-the-fact-that-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/you-come-to-grips-with-the-fact-that-writing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>You come to grips with the fact that writing something that sucks is better than writing nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>If you write something and it sucks, then good for you. Not all explorers discovered lost golden cities and trade routes to the mysterious East. Some of them died in a ditch. A lot of them did, actually. But still, they get full props for being brave.<\/p>\n<p>But if you sit there paralyzed with fear, afraid to get out of your chair, then you\u2019re no kind of explorer at all. You\u2019re just a sad bastard. You have no chance of being cool.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true with writing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Patrick Rothfuss (via <a href=\"http:\/\/standinawe.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">standinawe<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You come to grips with the fact that writing something that sucks is better than writing nothing at all. If you write something and it sucks, then good for you. Not all explorers discovered lost golden cities and trade routes to the mysterious East. Some of them died in a ditch. A lot of them [&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-24440","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-6mc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440","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=24440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}