{"id":185004,"date":"2014-10-24T02:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/24\/the-best-thing-about-writing-fiction-is-that\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T02:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:37:53","slug":"the-best-thing-about-writing-fiction-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/24\/the-best-thing-about-writing-fiction-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it\u2019s about and why you\u2019re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising\u2026 and it\u2019s magic and wonderful and strange.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Neil Gaiman (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/aquestionofcharacter.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">aquestionofcharacter<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it\u2019s about and why you\u2019re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/24\/the-best-thing-about-writing-fiction-is-that\/\" 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":[371,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185004"}],"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=185004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}