{"id":10066,"date":"2021-02-09T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2021-02-07T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T18:45:23","slug":"illuminating-ordinary-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/illuminating-ordinary-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminating Ordinary Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dani-Shapiro.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10067\" width=\"310\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dani-Shapiro.png 480w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dani-Shapiro-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We read for many reasons and different kinds of pleasures. One of those pleasures is recognition\u2014of a moment, a place, a feeling state. It&#8217;s the writer\u2019s job to find language for those moments, those feeling states, that allows the reader to access their own feelings, that makes them think, \u201cOh, I never thought of it that way before. I could never find the words or the language for that.\u201d Illuminating ordinary life, to me, is one of the most beautiful ways to write and to read. \u2014<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/danishapiro.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/danishapiro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dani Shapiro<\/a>, in conversation with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.suleikajaouad.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.suleikajaouad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Suleika Jaouad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We read for many reasons and different kinds of pleasures. One of those pleasures is recognition\u2014of a moment, a place, a feeling state. It&#8217;s the writer\u2019s job to find language for those moments, those feeling states, that allows the reader to access their own feelings, that makes them think, \u201cOh, I never thought of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1505,1404],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-dani-shapiro","tag-suleika-jaouad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2Cm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10068,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions\/10068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}