{"id":1939,"date":"2010-05-21T21:38:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2010-05-21T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:38:19","slug":"running-from-our-demanding-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/21\/running-from-our-demanding-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Running from our demanding art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is good. Look for the money quote, <strong>&#8220;eagerness to squander the precious time I have in running from the emotional demands that [writing\/music\/art] will make of me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People often remark that they would write, or paint, or sculpt, if  only they had the time. But this is pure fantasy: the artist does  whatever is necessary to arrange her life so that she will have the time  to make her art. Even as I fret over juggling responsibilities to my  aging mother, my disabled sister, my friends, and my art, I have to  admit that it is not obligation I fear, but my distressing eagerness to  squander the precious time I do have in running from the emotional  demands that writing will make of me.<\/p>\n<p>I may gripe about the inescapable chore of revision, of laboring over  what I have written until I get it right. But in my current state,  revision is less my problem than a reluctance to allow the flow of words  to come in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>-Kathleen Norris, Acedia &amp; Me, p.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is good. Look for the money quote, &#8220;eagerness to squander the precious time I have in running from the emotional demands that [writing\/music\/art] will make of me.&#8221; People often remark that they would write, or paint, or sculpt, if only they had the time. But this is pure fantasy: the artist does whatever is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/21\/running-from-our-demanding-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Running from our demanding art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}