{"id":2605,"date":"2015-01-27T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2015-01-24T01:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T08:29:25","slug":"make-characters-want-something-right-away-kurt-vonnegut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/make-characters-want-something-right-away-kurt-vonnegut\/","title":{"rendered":"Make characters want something  right away . . . Kurt Vonnegut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Vonnegut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2606 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Vonnegut.png\" alt=\"Vonnegut\" width=\"170\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Make characters want something\u00a0 right away &#8212; even if it&#8217;s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the\u00a0 meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. &#8230;\u00a0 When you exclude plot, when you exclude anyone&#8217;s wanting anything, you exclude\u00a0 the reader, which is a mean-spirited thing to do.&#8221; \u2014 Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Make characters want something\u00a0 right away &#8212; even if it&#8217;s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the\u00a0 meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. &#8230;\u00a0 When you exclude plot, when you exclude anyone&#8217;s wanting anything, you exclude\u00a0 the reader, which is a mean-spirited thing to do.&#8221; \u2014 [&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":[623],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-kurt-vonnegut"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-G1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","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=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}