{"id":2578,"date":"2013-01-21T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:24:17","slug":"the-unclever-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/the-unclever-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unclever Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2579\" alt=\"Jan21_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan21_2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan21_2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan21_2-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>I\u2019d like to say a word on behalf of gray afternoons, when the writer is not clever.\u00a0 Sternly outwitted by the traps she\u2019s set for her wretched characters, she longs for interruption.\u00a0 If only the piano tuner would come today and work his way painfully up the octaves, half-note by half-note, straining for the right pitch.\u00a0 If only the washing machine would stop and mandate the moving of clothes from one hole to another.\u00a0 If only a nice cup of tea would appear on the edge of the table and ask to be drunk.<\/p>\n<p>But no, the uninterrupted, unclever writer stays on her couch and prods back into the morass.\u00a0 Her character glares at her, arms crossed, churlish.\u00a0 You again?\u00a0 What are you doing here?\u00a0 Think you can push me around, do you?<\/p>\n<p>The writer pushes, uncleverly.\u00a0 She must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to say a word on behalf of gray afternoons, when the writer is not clever.\u00a0 Sternly outwitted by the traps she\u2019s set for her wretched characters, she longs for interruption.\u00a0 If only the piano tuner would come today and work his way painfully up the octaves, half-note by half-note, straining for the right [&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-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}