{"id":1088,"date":"2008-11-20T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T03:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2008-11-20T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T03:56:58","slug":"write-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/20\/write-on\/","title":{"rendered":"write on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.maganda.org\/jpg\/20081120_writeon.jpg\" alt=\"ideas\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Lynda Barry&#8217;s train of thought, written on index cards [more photos soon]<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This week, I did something I hadn&#8217;t done in years. I took a writing class. For my upcoming birthday, Rama enrolled me in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/writingtheunthinkable\" target=\"_new\">Writing the Unthinkable<\/a> taught by one of my heroes, <a href=\"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/29\/tell-me-a-story\/\" target=\"_new\">Lynda Barry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I just got home an hour ago, and I am still in awe at everything that transpired the past two 6-hour days. Marveling that I filled a stack of college-ruled paper with <a href=\"javascript:alert('each written in about 8 minutes');\" onmouseover=\"window.status=' footnote '; return true\" title=\"footnote\">8 pieces<\/a> in two days, a couple of which I actually think are good. Reliving the other stories I heard in and out of the classroom told to me by the other students, some that I just met and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estherwatson.com\/\" target=\"_new\">others<\/a> that I coincidentally already knew. Trying to hold on tightly to the nuggets of wisdom and bursts of hilarity that Lynda Barry <a href=\"javascript:alert('She seriously is just so darned nice!');\" onmouseover=\"window.status=' footnote '; return true\" title=\"footnote\">so generously<\/a> shared with us.<\/p>\n<p>It was all kind of unbelievable and incredibly fun, and I am so inspired to keep writing. To write more. Right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynda Barry&#8217;s train of thought, written on index cards [more photos soon] This week, I did something I hadn&#8217;t done in years. I took a writing class. For my upcoming birthday, Rama enrolled me in Writing the Unthinkable taught by one of my heroes, Lynda Barry. I just got home an hour ago, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}