{"id":364,"date":"2013-03-16T19:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T02:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2014-04-25T18:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T01:14:02","slug":"pen-to-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Pen to Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pen-to-paper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"pen to paper\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pen-to-paper_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"pen to paper\" width=\"294\" height=\"222\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/philgyford\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Photo \u00a9Phyl Gyford<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">creative commons license<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been having a helluva time writing lately. Even composing emails at work is painful.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided it was the computer\u2019s fault. I wrote the draft of this post sitting at the table putting words on paper. Words came out through my hands, moving the pen instead of on the computer screen and ah-ha! Something finally started happening.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve suspected for a long time now. I\u2019m one of those people who needs to practice pen to paper writing from time to time. Hopefully it\u2019s not a permanent thing because I do love that tap-tapping sound writing on the keyboard makes. Not only that but good god, if Jerry knew that a simple piece of paper and a crappy pen from the dollar store proved a better source of creative inspiration than the multitude of electronic gadgets he\u2019s bought me over the years I\u2019m dead.<\/p>\n<p>Any writers reading this right now? Do you like to sit down with old fashioned pen and paper or can you write exclusively on a keyboard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo \u00a9Phyl Gyfordcreative commons license I\u2019ve been having a helluva time writing lately. Even composing emails at work is painful. I finally decided it was the computer\u2019s fault. I wrote the draft of this post sitting at the table putting words on paper. Words came out through my hands, moving the pen instead of on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}