{"id":2058,"date":"2014-09-16T17:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2014-09-16T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:28:33","slug":"writing-can-offer-solace-and-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/writing-can-offer-solace-and-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing can offer solace and salvation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the October 2014 issue of Writer Magazine, &#8220;Writers on Writing,&#8221; <a title=\"Roxane Gay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roxanegay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roxane Gay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Vivien-.book_.-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2061 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Vivien-.book_.-2011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vivien .book. 2011\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Marlene&#8217;s Musings:<\/strong> Sometimes we want to read something good, just like we want comfort food. We need you, Writers, to do your best to create those words that soothe and settle us.<\/p>\n<p>Use the <a title=\"The Write Spot Blog prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">prompts<\/a> sprinkled throughout The Write Spot Blog and Just Write!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the October 2014 issue of Writer Magazine, &#8220;Writers on Writing,&#8221; Roxane Gay: &#8220;Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.&#8221; Marlene&#8217;s Musings: Sometimes we want to read something good, just like we want comfort food. We need you, Writers, to do your best to create those [&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":[126],"tags":[6,105,564,329,10],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-roxane-gay","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-freely"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-xc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","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=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}