{"id":2657,"date":"2015-02-02T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2015-10-20T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:58:43","slug":"roseanne-cash-feeling-alive-when-immersed-in-her-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/roseanne-cash-feeling-alive-when-immersed-in-her-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Roseanne Cash\u2014feeling alive when immersed in her work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Roseanne-Cash11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2660 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Roseanne-Cash11.jpg\" alt=\"Roseanne Cash1\" width=\"250\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8221; . . . [my] profession, like anyone&#8217;s, requires constant innovation if it is to remain fresh. I feel alive when I&#8217;m immersed in my work\u2014when I&#8217;m fully employed, as Leonard Cohen says, as a songwriter, &#8216;You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself. &#8216;&#8221; \u2014<a title=\"Roseanne Cash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/roseanne-cash-253679\" target=\"_blank\">Roseanne Cash<\/a> in an interview by Geoffrey Himes, &#8220;The Long Way Home, Smithsonian, November 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Note from Marlene:<\/strong> How about you? What keeps you immersed in your work? If your writing has hit the doldrums, how about mixing it up? If you usually write memoir, try fiction. If you are a fiction writer, try poetry.\u00a0\u00a0 If you want ideas for freewrites, click <a title=\"writing prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for writing prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; . . . [my] profession, like anyone&#8217;s, requires constant innovation if it is to remain fresh. I feel alive when I&#8217;m immersed in my work\u2014when I&#8217;m fully employed, as Leonard Cohen says, as a songwriter, &#8216;You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself. &#8216;&#8221; \u2014Roseanne Cash in an [&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":[6,105,10,11],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-GR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","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=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}