{"id":102979,"date":"2016-05-01T18:41:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/01\/hungrylikethewolfie-ive-been-thinking-it-over\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T18:41:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T18:41:50","slug":"hungrylikethewolfie-ive-been-thinking-it-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/01\/hungrylikethewolfie-ive-been-thinking-it-over\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hungrylikethewolfie.tumblr.com\/post\/142441103931\" target=\"_blank\">hungrylikethewolfie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking it over, and I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that writing a fic is a lot like taking a road trip.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s always better when shared with at least one other person who\u2019s as interested in the journey as you are, someone to help you navigate but also sometimes to back you up on an impromptu detour because PIE STAND!\u00a0 TOY MUSEUM!\u00a0 BADASS WATERFALL!\u00a0 LET\u2019S JUST TAKE A QUICK LOOK THERE COULD BE COOL STUFF OVER THERE!<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning you\u2019re super excited and full of eager anticipation, ready to hit the road and get your adventure underway.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s always at least one unexpected awesome thing that you discover along the way.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s also, depending on the length of your trip, at least one point where you\u2019re convinced that you are going to be driving forever.\u00a0 You had no life before this car, there has only ever been the road, this is where you will die, <i>how are you not there yet<\/i>?<\/li>\n<li>This was a terrible idea, you should\u2019ve just stayed home.<\/li>\n<li>This was an AWESOME idea, you are in control of your own destiny and you should do this sort of thing all the time.<\/li>\n<li>Sitting staring at the same rectangle of glass for untold hours at a time.<\/li>\n<li>Consuming probably rather more junk food and caffeine than you really ought to.<\/li>\n<li>The desperate hunt to find music that will properly set the mood.<\/li>\n<li>Yet another detour that\u2019s really legitimately important.<\/li>\n<li>Fifteen times as many detours that are total wastes of time, why on earth do you keep thinking they\u2019re necessary?<\/li>\n<li>Long stretches where the road just seems so tedious, and you know you have to get through it but you think you\u2019re gonna lose your damn mind before you do.<\/li>\n<li>Unexpected construction zones where everything grinds to a near halt.<\/li>\n<li>That point near the end where you think you\u2019re almost there, but actually you have like another hour and a half to go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hungrylikethewolfie: I\u2019ve been thinking it over, and I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that writing a fic is a lot like taking a road trip. It\u2019s always better when shared with at least one other person who\u2019s as interested in the journey as you are, someone to help you navigate but also sometimes to back you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/01\/hungrylikethewolfie-ive-been-thinking-it-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12754,9148,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}