{"id":485,"date":"2006-03-02T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2006-03-02T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T12:08:39","slug":"evaporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/02\/evaporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/06\/0306\/030206.html\">articulates <\/a>my greatest frustration&#8230; and fear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI have a large project that needs to be done. It&#8217;s the novel&#8230;. Part of me wants to give in to the Elves of Self-Doubt, who show up by the score and bang me over the head with small hammers until I realize there&#8217;s no point to writing the damn thing, but I really like the idea. It&#8217;s a matter of finding the time. This is where &#8220;not winning the lottery&#8221; is a major impediment, because I cannot stroll back to the Writing Hut at the edge of the Manor and type uninterrupted. Everything else I can do with constant interruption, both external and internal  &#8212;  but it&#8217;s hard to get into the groove when something else is always nipping at my heels. No matter how good the idea is, enthusiasm is evanescent, and I worry that this one will just evaporate with time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks articulates my greatest frustration&#8230; and fear: I have a large project that needs to be done. It&#8217;s the novel&#8230;. Part of me wants to give in to the Elves of Self-Doubt, who show up by the score and bang me over the head with small hammers until I realize there&#8217;s no point to writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}