{"id":121261,"date":"2015-12-26T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T13:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/26\/getting-lost-is-both-the-plight-and-the-joy-of-the\/"},"modified":"2015-12-26T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T13:21:09","slug":"getting-lost-is-both-the-plight-and-the-joy-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/26\/getting-lost-is-both-the-plight-and-the-joy-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Getting lost is both the plight and the joy of the artist\u2026 This getting lost cannot be faked. We cannot pretend to be lost. We cannot be quasi-lost. In order to possibly find that way out \u2013 in order to discover that thing previously unknown to us \u2013 we walk through the pitch-black darkness. We feel our hands against cave walls. We slip and fall. We bruise ourselves, blind to our own path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>The always-brilliant <b>Dani Shapiro<\/b> on <a href=\"http:\/\/danishapiro.com\/on-getting-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\">the creative urgency of getting lost<\/a>. Also see Rebecca Solnit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/08\/04\/field-guide-to-getting-lost-rebecca-solnit\/\" target=\"_blank\">how we find ourselves by getting lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/06\/02\/dani-shapiro-design-matters-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Still Writing<\/a> <\/i>is indispensable not only for writers, but for anyone in a creative field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.brainpickings.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting lost is both the plight and the joy of the artist\u2026 This getting lost cannot be faked. We cannot pretend to be lost. We cannot be quasi-lost. In order to possibly find that way out \u2013 in order to discover that thing previously unknown to us \u2013 we walk through the pitch-black darkness. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/26\/getting-lost-is-both-the-plight-and-the-joy-of-the\/\" 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":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[363,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121261"}],"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=121261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}