{"id":1561,"date":"2012-01-23T19:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2012-01-23T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T00:42:35","slug":"be-brave-experiment-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/be-brave-experiment-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Brave. Experiment. Dance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1562\" title=\"Degas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Degas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" \/>You know Degas? The French artist who painted all those dancers?\u00a0 His ballet dancers are so ubiquitous that I see them more as friendly, familiar wallpaper than as art, and yet when I saw one of his paintings recently, it kept pulling at me, and I wasn\u2019t sure why.\u00a0 I started wondering about the way the main figure was placed so far to the right, leaving so much empty floor space of the dance studio behind her, and then it hit me that the dancer was poised to turn and move into that space.\u00a0 The painting was alive with this strange tension, this potential for movement, and it drew my eye back and forth. The painting made my mind supply the dance.<\/p>\n<p>How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>I love when I discover something by seeing things in a new way.\u00a0 My favorite artists have weird, playful, or political things popping from their work.\u00a0 Their paintings and sculptures urge me to be brave, to write with conviction, to explore and create.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m experimenting with my writing, toying with a new idea in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> draft of a novel I thought was finished before I talked to my editor this afternoon.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to mess around with it, and I suspect the reason why I\u2019m so ready is because last week, I saw a dancer teetering in a painting. Thanks, Degas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know Degas? The French artist who painted all those dancers?\u00a0 His ballet dancers are so ubiquitous that I see them more as friendly, familiar wallpaper than as art, and yet when I saw one of his paintings recently, it kept pulling at me, and I wasn\u2019t sure why.\u00a0 I started wondering about the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}