{"id":13151,"date":"2024-03-29T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=13151"},"modified":"2024-05-02T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:26:39","slug":"then-and-now-prompt-781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/then-and-now-prompt-781\/","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now . . . Prompt #781"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As we go through life, interacting with people, we learn ways of being in the world. We learn coping strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes we find that what used to work, no longer works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write about you then and you now. “Then” is whenever you want it to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write about how you used to react to people and certain situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write about how you now react in the same situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover of “The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Connections” features Marlene’s mother ~1945 and letters from her to her mother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connections<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>is a collection of writing from mothers and their adult children, using story-telling as a technique to ignite imagination and to inspire writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connections<\/em> is available from your local bookseller and as an ebook (and print) at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we go through life, interacting with people, we learn ways of being in the world. We learn coping strategies. Sometimes we find that what used to work, no longer works. Writing Prompt Write about you then and you now. “Then” is whenever you want it to be. Write about how you used to react […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3q7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151","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=13151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13152,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions\/13152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}