{"id":532,"date":"2006-04-25T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T10:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2006-04-25T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T10:55:39","slug":"decisions_decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/25\/decisions_decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisions, Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another tidbit from <a title=\"My Goal List, ca. 1992\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/04\/my_goal_list_ca_1992\/\">my old Cinemark padfolio<\/a>, a quote that I apparently found inspiring or at least interesting back in the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWriting, like film directing, is a matter of making endless decisions. Every word, every sentence, the order of the paragraphs &#8212; everything is a decision. There are an infinite number of possibilities in putting something together as you write. Because of this, if a person is not decisive, he will never write anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8211;Lawrence Kasdan<\/p>\n<p>If the name isn&#8217;t familiar, Kasdan is a screenwriter and director best known for the ensemble dramas <i>The Big Chill<\/i> and <i>Grand Canyon<\/i>. He also wrote the screenplays for <i>The Empire Strikes Back<\/i> and <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i>, based on outlines by the Great Flanneled One. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001410\/\">here<\/a> for his filmography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another tidbit from my old Cinemark padfolio, a quote that I apparently found inspiring or at least interesting back in the day: Writing, like film directing, is a matter of making endless decisions. Every word, every sentence, the order of the paragraphs &#8212; everything is a decision. There are an infinite number of possibilities [&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-532","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\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}