{"id":412,"date":"2009-10-04T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2009-10-02T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T19:08:08","slug":"in-which-we-goad-ourselves-onward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/in-which-we-goad-ourselves-onward\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which We Goad Ourselves Onward"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you undertake to make a work of art—a novel or a clay pot—you’re not competing against anybody, except yourself and God. Can I do it better this time?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Ursula K Le Guin, from her essay The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen<\/em>, collected in The Language of the Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you undertake to make a work of art—a novel or a clay pot—you’re not competing against anybody, except yourself and God. Can I do it better this time? — Ursula K Le Guin, from her essay The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen, collected in The Language of the Night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[99,296,2546,2545],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-nuggets","tag-criticism","tag-quotes","tag-sf","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}