{"id":6436,"date":"2017-02-14T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2017-02-10T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T00:55:54","slug":"what-makes-a-happy-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/what-makes-a-happy-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a happy reader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Girl-reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6439 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Girl-reading-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>What makes a happy reader?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertkiener.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Keiner<\/a> answers, &#8220;It&#8217;s all about being invited in by the writer. If a writer begins showing off with obscure or precious writing, that gets in the readers&#8217; way. . . The job of the writer is to ignite a fictional daydream in the brain of the reader and then step away and become invisible so the story becomes the readers&#8217; own.&#8221; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WritersDigest<\/a>, February 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a happy reader? Robert Keiner answers, &#8220;It&#8217;s all about being invited in by the writer. If a writer begins showing off with obscure or precious writing, that gets in the readers&#8217; way. . . The job of the writer is to ignite a fictional daydream in the brain of the reader and then [&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-6436","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\/p43Dj8-1FO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436","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=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}