{"id":165770,"date":"2015-02-28T17:19:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/28\/lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T10:48:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T10:48:42","slug":"lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/28\/lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-165770 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/28\/lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was\/attachment\/165771\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio1_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio1_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/28\/lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was\/attachment\/165772\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio2_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio2_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio2_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/28\/lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was\/attachment\/165773\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio4_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio4_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio4_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/28\/lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was\/attachment\/165774\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio3_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio3_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_ne6px2yCOC1rtvheio3_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lilydrinkwell.tumblr.com\/post\/101236287644\" target=\"_blank\">lilydrinkwell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><small>[about writing Blank Space] I was kind of looking at this whole fictionalized version of my life the media has portrayed, because I don\u2019t talk about my personal life, so they\u2019ve kind of had to make one up for me. And I guess in the last couple of years the story has been that I\u2019m like a serial dater, and I like have all these boyfriends, and we\u2019re traveling the world, and everything\u2019s great until I get overemotional and crazy and obsessive, and they leave, and I\u2019m devastated and I write songs to get emotional revenge cause I\u2019m psychotic. And that character, if you think about it, if that\u2019s actually how I was, it\u2019s such a complex, interesting character to write from the perspective of. So I was kinda like, I could write a song from her perspective, and see how it would turn out. All of a sudden I started having so much fun writing these like zingers and one-liners, that it ended up being one of the funniest songs on the record, and one of the songs that people actually gravitate towards. <\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lilydrinkwell: [about writing Blank Space] I was kind of looking at this whole fictionalized version of my life the media has portrayed, because I don\u2019t talk about my personal life, so they\u2019ve kind of had to make one up for me. And I guess in the last couple of years the story has been that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/28\/lilydrinkwell-about-writing-blank-space-i-was\/\" 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":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17302,5906,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165770"}],"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=165770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165775,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165770\/revisions\/165775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}