{"id":383,"date":"2013-10-04T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2016-09-10T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T20:11:34","slug":"five-minute-friday-write-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/04\/five-minute-friday-write-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minute Friday: Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sunsetoctoberweb.jpg\" alt=\"sunsetoctoberweb\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sunsetoctoberweb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sunsetoctoberweb-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">You see this picture? I could never in a million years paint that. I can barely take a photograph and it does it no justice, but it gives you an idea of what I saw yesterday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I have no artistic ability in me, I can&#8217;t even mix colors well. Heck, I can barely color inside the lines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I can not make music, my singing voice is far from what it was in college when I took voice lessons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I can appreciate the work and where it comes from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Because I write. I know where that spot is in me. I write the words I&#8217;m given. I write from a place deep within, marred by many things over the years. The years have honed the words.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Sometimes the words come up from the deep and spill all over the page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The blank page. My canvas. The picture isn&#8217;t always pretty; but it&#8217;s clear and if you look you will see me in what I write. My portrait.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Full stop.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see this picture? I could never in a million years paint that. I can barely take a photograph and it does it no justice, but it gives you an idea of what I saw yesterday.\u00a0 I have no artistic ability in me, I can&#8217;t even mix colors well. Heck, I can barely color inside &#8230; <a title=\"Five Minute Friday: Write\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/04\/five-minute-friday-write-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Five Minute Friday: Write\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[96,127,84,115],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-minute-fridays","tag-5minute-fridays","tag-creativity","tag-fmf","tag-write"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}