{"id":16842,"date":"2016-07-27T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=16842"},"modified":"2016-07-27T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:18:02","slug":"short-creative-writing-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/short-creative-writing-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"A short creative writing piece&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A short creative writing\u00a0piece\u00a0about a guy who&#8217;s a writer&#8230;who hasn&#8217;t written anything in a really, really\u00a0long time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done this. I&#8217;ll admit it, I wasn&#8217;t quite sure how to go about this time. My first one got such backlash (sighs)&#8230;but\u00a0I didn&#8217;t even say anything I\u00a0<\/em>really\u00a0<em>wanted to say. At first, it made me angry &#8211; I hated the critics. Who were they? What did they know? I looked down on them for being so&#8230;obtuse? That&#8217;s a good word.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t remember\u00a0the 7 or 10 steps of grief, but next, I was depressed. Were they right? What was my end game, and who did I think I was? I remember feeling a little\u00a0embarrassed, for just a moment.\u00a0<\/em><em>It didn&#8217;t last for long though. I eventually realized it wasn&#8217;t their fault &#8211; they just didn&#8217;t get it. Or maybe they did, and it made them uncomfortable. Either way, I was right on the whole time. Still, I have to make a living&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short creative writing\u00a0piece\u00a0about a guy who&#8217;s a writer&#8230;who hasn&#8217;t written anything in a really, really\u00a0long time. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done this. I&#8217;ll admit it, I wasn&#8217;t quite sure how to go about this time. My first one got such backlash (sighs)&#8230;but\u00a0I didn&#8217;t even say anything I\u00a0really\u00a0wanted to say. At first, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}