{"id":13467,"date":"2024-10-17T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=13467"},"modified":"2024-10-17T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:35:35","slug":"13467-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/13467-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bookshawl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5693\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWriting sheds light where there is darkness. It brings people a greater understanding of themselves and each other and the world. It connects them and brings them together. It makes our world warmer and brighter and more hopeful.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/foxprinteditorial.com\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tiffany Yates Martin<\/a>, Nov\/Dec 2024 Writer\u2019s Digest magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on \u201cWhy write:\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/writing-resilient-why-write\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Writing Resilient: Why Write?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/why-write-your-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Write Your Story?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWriting sheds light where there is darkness. It brings people a greater understanding of themselves and each other and the world. It connects them and brings them together. It makes our world warmer and brighter and more hopeful.\u201d \u2014Tiffany Yates Martin, Nov\/Dec 2024 Writer\u2019s Digest magazine. More on \u201cWhy write:\u201d Writing Resilient: Why Write? Why [&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":[],"class_list":["post-13467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3vd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467","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=13467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13470,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions\/13470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}