{"id":2518,"date":"2012-09-12T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2012-09-12T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:11:36","slug":"quote-of-the-week-writing-without-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Week: Writing Without Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ins><ins id=\"aswift_1_anchor\"><\/ins><\/ins> <strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\"> So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">Harold Acton, <em>Memoirs of an Aesthete<\/em>, 1948<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Far be it from me to disagree with a writer from the past, but in this case, I do. We must dive into the blank page the way we dive into the Void, ever seeking the right word, the perfect phrase to convey what we are trying to say. To catch the flashing glimmer of truth that is sometimes\u00c2\u00a0 elusive, sometimes close at hand, but always worth chasing. Even when we miss, the leap is worth it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s to marring the blank page, and to writing without regret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.\u00c2\u00a0 Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 Far be it from me to disagree with a writer from the past, but in this case, I do. We must dive into the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2518\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Week: Writing Without Regret<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[179,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}