{"id":1709,"date":"2014-07-31T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2014-07-23T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T17:09:49","slug":"vulnerability-is-my-strength-mk-asante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/vulnerability-is-my-strength-mk-asante\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vulnerability is my strength.&#8221; \u2014 MK Asante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always known that I had a story to tell about my education. I don&#8217;t mean school. I mean my coming of age.&#8221; \u2014 <a title=\"MK Asante\" href=\"http:\/\/mkasante.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MK Asante<\/a>, filmmaker, professor, hip-hop artist, essayist and memoirist. The Writer magazine, July 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MK-Asante.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1710 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MK-Asante.jpg\" alt=\"MK Asante\" width=\"170\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t have the courage to do it [write] until more recently. I was ashamed of some of the things I wrote about in the book. I didn&#8217;t want to deal with those things. As I had more distance, reflection and time, I realized that vulnerability is my strength, and everything I&#8217;ve been through is not something to be ashamed of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>How about you? Are you ready to write your story? You can jumpstart your writing with <a title=\"Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">prompts<\/a> posted on The Write Spot Blog.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always known that I had a story to tell about my education. I don&#8217;t mean school. I mean my coming of age.&#8221; \u2014 MK Asante, filmmaker, professor, hip-hop artist, essayist and memoirist. The Writer magazine, July 2014 &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have the courage to do it [write] until more recently. I was ashamed of some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[105,329,10,11],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-rz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","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=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}