{"id":7971,"date":"2019-01-22T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2019-01-22T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:48:57","slug":"the-personal-essay-is-an-act-the-personal-essay-is-an-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-personal-essay-is-an-act-the-personal-essay-is-an-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The personal essay is an act . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe personal essay begins as an act of exploration. We write in order to figure out where we\u2019re going and make sense of where we\u2019ve been.\u201d \u2014 Susan Bono<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/What-have-we-here-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7975\" width=\"166\" height=\"246\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Susan Bono (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/susanbono.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Bono<\/a> is an extraordinary writer whose words go right to the heart. You can read her excellent writing in her collection of short essays in  <br><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Have-We-Here-Keeping\/dp\/0692279431\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1548115758&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=susan+bono\" target=\"_blank\">What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home.<\/a><\/em><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan is a writing teacher and freelance editor specializing in memoir. She facilitates <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"writing workshops (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewritespot.us\/jumpstart.php\" target=\"_blank\">writing workshops<\/a> at Copperfield&#8217;s Books in Petaluma. California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe personal essay begins as an act of exploration. We write in order to figure out where we\u2019re going and make sense of where we\u2019ve been.\u201d \u2014 Susan Bono Susan Bono is an extraordinary writer whose words go right to the heart. You can read her excellent writing in her collection of short essays in [&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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-susan-bono"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-24z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","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=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7981,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions\/7981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}