{"id":4243,"date":"2013-07-27T04:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2013-07-27T04:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:11:46","slug":"just-write-just-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=4243","title":{"rendered":"Just write, just wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

“So what are you good at?” she asked me.<\/p>\n

Almost without hesitation, I replied “I’m an excellent writer.”<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, she asked me, “How would you feel if you’d been able to have a child?”<\/p>\n

With hesitation, I told her that I thought I’d be a good Mom, but had reservations and have come to embrace childlessness. Mostly.<\/p>\n

She said, “When you talk about writing, you light up, no shame, no sadness. Your homework this week is to write.”<\/p>\n

It was an exhausting hour of therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“So what are you good at?” she asked me. Almost without hesitation, I replied “I’m an excellent writer.” A few minutes later, she asked me, “How would you feel if you’d been able to have a child?” With hesitation, I told her that I thought I’d be a good Mom, but had reservations and have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certifiable-undeniable","category-life-in-cheesecake-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}