{"id":4923,"date":"2017-01-11T15:47:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:47:30","slug":"the-edge-of-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/the-edge-of-abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edge of Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Traffic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Traffic.png\" alt=\"traffic\" width=\"275\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Traffic.png 635w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Traffic-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Traffic-450x372.png 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Traffic-250x207.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes my writing takes me to a strange place where the normal world drops away and I\u2019m dealing with an abstract, dream-like landscape. Artistically, it should be intriguing, but honestly, it\u2019s a very uncomfortable place to be. I fear my readers will be confused, or that I\u2019m cheating by letting images stand in place of more conventional explanations. I have to hold my own hand for courage and dip my toe off the cliff into gray, weightless space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes my writing takes me to a strange place where the normal world drops away and I\u2019m dealing with an abstract, dream-like landscape. Artistically, it should be intriguing, but honestly, it\u2019s a very uncomfortable place to be. I fear my readers will be confused, or that I\u2019m cheating by letting images stand in place of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","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=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}