{"id":2482,"date":"2014-12-30T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:48:16","slug":"first-thoughts-have-tremendous-energy-natalie-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/first-thoughts-have-tremendous-energy-natalie-goldberg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First thoughts have tremendous energy.&#8221; Natalie Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Goldberg says . . .\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;First thoughts have tremendous energy. It is the way the mind first flashes on something.&#8221; <a title=\"Natalie Goldberg\" href=\"http:\/\/nataliegoldberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Goldberg<\/a>, <a title=\"Writing Down The Bones\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Down-Bones-Freeing-Writer\/dp\/1590302613\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419993269&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Writing+Down+the+Bones\" target=\"_blank\">Writing Down the Bones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Natalie-Goldberg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-2487 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Natalie-Goldberg-150x150.png\" alt=\"Natalie Goldberg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Nat&#8217;s quote perfectly describes what a free write can do . . . opens us up to ideas and thoughts that lie within us.\u00a0 Try it. Go to the prompts category <a title=\"writing prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or <a title=\"more writing prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewritespot.us\/writingprompt.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and choose a prompt. Then write . . . freely. Just Write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Goldberg says . . .\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;First thoughts have tremendous energy. It is the way the mind first flashes on something.&#8221; Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones. Nat&#8217;s quote perfectly describes what a free write can do . . . opens us up to ideas and thoughts that lie within us.\u00a0 Try it. Go to [&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":[11],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-E2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","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=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}