{"id":5545,"date":"2016-05-22T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2016-05-22T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T21:09:27","slug":"when-we-accumulated-silent-things-within-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/when-we-accumulated-silent-things-within-us\/","title":{"rendered":"When we accumulated silent things within us . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bachelard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5547 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bachelard-208x300.png\" alt=\"Bachelard\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bachelard-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bachelard.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>\u201cWhat is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak&#8230;.it was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us.\u201d \u2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8276.Gaston_Bachelard\"><strong>Gaston Bachelard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first learned of Gaston Bachelard from my writing teacher, Terry Ehret, with her response to my poem, &#8220;What I Learned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Terry wrote on my paper, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a quote from Gaston Bachelard (French philosopher) that your poem makes me think of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no poet, but it&#8217;s been fun to dabble.\u00a0 Click on <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=4835\" target=\"_blank\">Prompt #221<\/a>, to read &#8220;What I Learned.&#8221;\u00a0 (scroll down)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak&#8230;.it was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us.\u201d \u2015\u00a0Gaston Bachelard I first learned of Gaston Bachelard from my writing teacher, Terry Ehret, with her response to my poem, &#8220;What I Learned.&#8221; Terry wrote [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5545","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\/p43Dj8-1rr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","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=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}