{"id":121525,"date":"2015-12-24T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/24\/jedusaur-i-saw-a-post-the-other-day-by-someone\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:04:44","slug":"jedusaur-i-saw-a-post-the-other-day-by-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/24\/jedusaur-i-saw-a-post-the-other-day-by-someone\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jedusaur.tumblr.com\/post\/133943505515\" target=\"_blank\">jedusaur<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I saw a post the other day by someone feeling hopeless about their chances of ever doing anything great or being remembered, because Hamilton made them feel so unaccomplished. I wish I could share my experience of the show with that person. This musical cranks the spigot of my creative juices like nothing else I can remember. When I want to write and I\u2019m just not in the right headspace for it, all I have to do is listen to\u00a0\u201cNon-Stop\u201d and\u00a0\u201cHurricane.\u201d It makes me feel unaccomplished too, but it also makes me feel like I have all the tools I need to become accomplished. All I have to do is use them.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not inspired by stories of tortured artists who drank their depression away. I\u2019m not inspired by stories of well-bred, well-mannered historical figures with their hands neatly folded. I\u2019m inspired by this story of a stubborn defensive loudmouth fucker with an often-misdirected knack for writing. That\u2019s me. I\u2019m self-centered. I talk too much. I don\u2019t know when to let go.\u00a0<i>He looked at me like I was stupid\u2013I\u2019m <b>not stupid<\/b>.<\/i> If this asshole can go down in history, so can I.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jedusaur: I saw a post the other day by someone feeling hopeless about their chances of ever doing anything great or being remembered, because Hamilton made them feel so unaccomplished. I wish I could share my experience of the show with that person. This musical cranks the spigot of my creative juices like nothing else &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/24\/jedusaur-i-saw-a-post-the-other-day-by-someone\/\" 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":[2090,353,1364,338,4,45,14553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121525"}],"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=121525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}