{"id":1279,"date":"2012-06-23T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2012-06-23T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T03:49:52","slug":"the-week-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/the-week-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I have questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/imgres-211.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1281\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/imgres-211.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>After a week spent moving the summer issue of the magazine to print and the July edition of @St. Norbert to its editor, while also helping our team find the personable and unified voice we intend for our new website (a voice quite easy for me to analyze, develop and explain but that completely eludes me in my own work) \u00a0I am now spending Saturday night on an article &#8220;just for fun&#8221; and asking myself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is writing so hard?<\/li>\n<li>Why do I keep doing it?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it so ridiculously satisyfying when it starts going right?<\/li>\n<li>Why does it take me, personally, so long to reach that stage?<\/li>\n<li>Why, given all the above, am I now &#8211; for heaven&#8217;s sake! \u2013 writing about all that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I do have a few answers, too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing scratches that itch.<\/li>\n<li>It feels great when you get to push the words around on the page and they all begin to click neatly into place.<\/li>\n<li>Whether the experience was a fascinating interview, a great story bursting to be told or one of those flashes of insight that drop into your lap\u00a0by act of sheer grace, writing about it ties things up in a neat bow and stores it up for late use,<\/li>\n<li>As we learned at Mother&#8217;s knee, it is nice to be a good sharer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week spent moving the summer issue of the magazine to print and the July edition of @St. Norbert to its editor, while also helping our team find the personable and unified voice we intend for our new website&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/the-week-in-review\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1],"tags":[77,406,409,410,419],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}