{"id":8303,"date":"2019-08-08T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T23:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T23:16:25","slug":"write-what-is-hard-to-admit-prompt-435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/write-what-is-hard-to-admit-prompt-435\/","title":{"rendered":"Write what is hard to admit.   Prompt #435"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cooper.Rainbow.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8309\" width=\"103\" height=\"158\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t grow up missing what you never had, but throughout life there is hovering over you an inescapable longing for something you never had.\u201d \u2014 Susan Sontag, excerpted from <em>The Rainbow Comes and Goes<\/em> by Anderson Cooper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson Cooper continues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a child, you generally aren\u2019t aware that your family is\ndifferent from any other. You have no frame of reference.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Berg.What-We-Keep.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8308\" width=\"106\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Berg.What-We-Keep.png 266w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Berg.What-We-Keep-193x300.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is excerpted from <em>What We Keep<\/em> by Elizabeth Berg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am thinking of how right he was when he said that people\nwant to be deceived. I have learned the truth of that notion over and over; but\nI never admitted to its obvious presence in my own life. After all, I claimed I\ndid not need my mother. I said I had replaced her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong> Write about something you have been unwilling to admit or something you have been deceiving yourself about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>No one has to see your writing unless you share it. You can write and destroy your writing if it feels too personal to leave on paper, or delete on computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write Spot blog posts to help when writing on a difficult topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"How to Write Without Adding Trauma (opens in a new tab)\">How to Write Without Adding Trauma<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Why Write Your Story (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=7886\" target=\"_blank\">Why Write Your Story<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t grow up missing what you never had, but throughout life there is hovering over you an inescapable longing for something you never had.\u201d \u2014 Susan Sontag, excerpted from The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper continues: \u201cAs a child, you generally aren\u2019t aware that your family is different from any [&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":[105,1179],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-just-write","tag-writing-prompts-just-write-writing-freely-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-29V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","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=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}