{"id":10624,"date":"2006-03-07T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/07\/question\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T16:32:02","slug":"question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/07\/question\/","title":{"rendered":"Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If an author wrote a story, polished it to the best of their abilities, and then burned the manuscript, never showing anyone the finished product is that insanity or Zen?<\/p>\n<p>In my thinking the act mixes both. I can see the Zen of it; writing done solely for the sake of writing. No expectations, and no compromises. The process is truly its own reward.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, destroying something one slaved over without sharing seems a bit controlling to me, but I could be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an author wrote a story, polished it to the best of their abilities, and then burned the manuscript, never showing anyone the finished product is that insanity or Zen? In my thinking the act mixes both. I can see the Zen of it; writing done solely for the sake of writing. No expectations, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}