{"id":7694,"date":"2018-07-18T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2018-07-14T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T16:16:22","slug":"describe-a-task-prompt-376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/describe-a-task-prompt-376\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe a task.  Prompt #376"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5145 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fountain-pen-w-color.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tillie taught me how to fill a pen, or, as she said, \u201cHow to <em>properly<\/em>\u00a0 fill a pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One: Turn the filling plunger counterclockwise as far as it will go.<\/p>\n<p>Two: Dip the nib completely into the ink.<\/p>\n<p>Three: Turn the filling plunger clockwise until it stops.<\/p>\n<p>Four: Hold the nib above the ink bottle and turn the plunger counter-clockwise again until three drops of ink fall back into the bottle.<\/p>\n<p>Five: Turn the plunger clockwise to stop the drops.<\/p>\n<p>Six: Wipe the excess ink completely from pen and nib.<\/p>\n<p>When I told Tillie that six steps seemed a lot to have to do before you begin, she said, \u201cYou must think of those six steps not as preparation for the beginning but as the beginning itself.\u201d \u00a0\u2014 <em>The View from Saturday<\/em> by E. L. Konigsburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt: Desribe the steps to accomplish something.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or: Write about preparing something.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just Write!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tillie taught me how to fill a pen, or, as she said, \u201cHow to properly\u00a0 fill a pen.\u201d One: Turn the filling plunger counterclockwise as far as it will go. Two: Dip the nib completely into the ink. Three: Turn the filling plunger clockwise until it stops. Four: Hold the nib above the ink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[6,105,10,11],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","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\/p43Dj8-206","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","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=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}