{"id":6676,"date":"2007-06-05T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:22:35","slug":"the-gobi-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6676","title":{"rendered":"The Gobi of writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edith Wharton had been a bit on my mind lately, just peripherally &#8211; in a floaty sort of way. I think Wharton kept coming up for me starting from <a href=\"http:\/\/afterjanuary.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/22\/some-stories\/\">this post of Anne&#8217;s <\/a>&#8211; it just got me to thinking &#8230; and then, on my new favorite blog &#8211; I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/lettersoftheday.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/edith-wharton-in-gobi-desert.html\">this wonderful letter from Wharton<\/a>.  It&#8217;s really what I need to hear right now, in terms of writing.  Weird when that happens sometimes.  But it&#8217;s definitely food for continuous thought &#8211; I have been experiencing it myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edith Wharton had been a bit on my mind lately, just peripherally &#8211; in a floaty sort of way. I think Wharton kept coming up for me starting from this post of Anne&#8217;s &#8211; it just got me to thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194989,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/194989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}