{"id":252142,"date":"2013-10-09T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/09\/you-have-to-surrender-to-your-mediocrity-and-just-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:10:50","slug":"you-have-to-surrender-to-your-mediocrity-and-just-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/09\/you-have-to-surrender-to-your-mediocrity-and-just-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it\u2019s hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it\u2019s better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can\u2019t write anybody\u2019s book but your own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Cheryl Strayed (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dejsong.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dejsong<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Yes! This is up there with the Amy Poehler thing about doing things <em>right now<\/em>, before you\u2019re ready, because great people do things before they are ready.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thewomanofkleenex.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thewomanofkleenex<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it\u2019s hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it\u2019s better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/09\/you-have-to-surrender-to-your-mediocrity-and-just-2\/\" 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":[4,45,6469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252142"}],"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=252142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}