{"id":9000,"date":"2020-02-18T07:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2020-02-16T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:04:36","slug":"writing-makes-chaos-bearable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/writing-makes-chaos-bearable\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Makes Chaos Bearable"},"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\/2020\/02\/Bookshelf-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9001\" width=\"209\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bookshelf-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bookshelf-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bookshelf-768x1077.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bookshelf.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStories are how we make sense of our lives, how we attempt\nto impose some discernable order on the chaos of existence, and such attempts\nmake the chaos bearable.\u201d \u2014 Bret Anthony Johnston, \u201cNarrative Calisthenics,\u201d\nPoets &amp; Writers, Nov\/Dec 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStories are how we make sense of our lives, how we attempt to impose some discernable order on the chaos of existence, and such attempts make the chaos bearable.\u201d \u2014 Bret Anthony Johnston, \u201cNarrative Calisthenics,\u201d Poets &amp; Writers, Nov\/Dec 2008<\/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":[3],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2la","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9002,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}