{"id":1980,"date":"2014-09-04T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2014-09-05T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:06:06","slug":"theres-no-point-in-trying-to-impress-people-with-cleverness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/theres-no-point-in-trying-to-impress-people-with-cleverness\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no point in trying to impress people with cleverness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this quote in the September 2014 issue of The Writer Magazine. It aligns perfectly with my passion for genuine and authentic writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Molly-Antopol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Molly-Antopol.jpg\" alt=\"Molly Antopol\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Years ago I read an interview with <a title=\"Paula Fox\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paula_Fox\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Fox<\/a> in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there&#8217;s no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.&#8221; \u2014 <a title=\"Molly Antopol\" href=\"http:\/\/mollyantopol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Antopol<\/a>, The UnAmericans, Stanford University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this quote in the September 2014 issue of The Writer Magazine. It aligns perfectly with my passion for genuine and authentic writing. &#8220;Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I [&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":[553,552],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-molly-antopol","tag-paula-fox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-vW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}