{"id":3811,"date":"2015-09-22T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2015-09-28T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:13:41","slug":"cast-off-the-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/cast-off-the-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast off the fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was terrified about writing stories about where I came from because I was embarrassed. Truly great writers are not afraid to bare their souls. Sometimes you may feel like: &#8216;I shouldn&#8217;t have put that in there, I don&#8217;t want people to think it&#8217;s about me or look at me differently.&#8217; Toss those thoughts aside. That&#8217;s a mental block. Don&#8217;t think about it. Just do it. As long as you write from a place of purity, and it comes from your heart, you can&#8217;t go wrong.&#8221;\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/kwanfoye.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">K&#8217;wan Foye<\/a>, interview with Alicia Anstead, October 215 issue of The Writer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Kwan-Foye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3812\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Kwan-Foye.jpg\" alt=\"Kwan Foye\" width=\"248\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was terrified about writing stories about where I came from because I was embarrassed. Truly great writers are not afraid to bare their souls. Sometimes you may feel like: &#8216;I shouldn&#8217;t have put that in there, I don&#8217;t want people to think it&#8217;s about me or look at me differently.&#8217; Toss those thoughts aside. [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-Zt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}