{"id":131082,"date":"2015-10-18T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/18\/if-you-are-a-reader-you-are-already-halfway-to\/"},"modified":"2015-10-18T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:17:12","slug":"if-you-are-a-reader-you-are-already-halfway-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/18\/if-you-are-a-reader-you-are-already-halfway-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer\u2026For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/wordsnquotes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Philippa Gregory<\/a>, <i>The Taming of the Queen<\/i><br \/> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsnquotes.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">wordsnquotes<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer\u2026For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/18\/if-you-are-a-reader-you-are-already-halfway-to\/\" 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":[4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131082"}],"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=131082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}