{"id":168,"date":"2003-11-28T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2003\/11\/28\/words-to-ponder-61\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:16:53","slug":"words-to-ponder-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2003\/11\/28\/words-to-ponder-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Words to Ponder #61"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nWriting is not an amusing occupation.  It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.  Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilerating, racking, relieving.  But amusing?  Never!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Edna Ferber, <cite>A Peculiar Treasure<\/cite> (1939)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilerating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! &#8211;Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure (1939)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13153,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}