{"id":301,"date":"2013-09-13T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2013-09-13T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:12:07","slug":"humbling-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2013\/09\/13\/humbling-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Humbling experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful thing: when you finish reading a poem intended to be funny, and the whole room bursts out into loud, genuine laughter. <\/p>\n<p>At my writers&#8217; group meeting today I read that poem I edited yesterday (it&#8217;s about a demon bus driver&#8230; in a way). It was intended to be a funny piece &#8211; but oh, the reaction was just so awesome! I always feel humbled if I see my writing actually affecting people. It&#8217;s magic &#8211; <em>those people are laughing\/crying\/moved by something I wrote!<\/em> Laughter is especially amazing to provoke, because I find it a challenge to write something laugh-out-loud funny. I think I&#8217;m a pretty funny person (EGO-STROKING ALERT), and I enjoy inserting subtle humour into things, but getting the full LOL reaction is much harder to achieve. <\/p>\n<p>Making people feel with my writing is humbling and wonderful. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, I like it when they cry, too. *evil grin*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful thing: when you finish reading a poem intended to be funny, and the whole room bursts out into loud, genuine laughter. At my writers&#8217; group meeting today I read that poem I edited yesterday (it&#8217;s about a demon bus driver&#8230; in a way). It was intended to be a funny piece &#8211; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10,6],"tags":[39,23,67,12],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-personal-babble","category-poetry","tag-discussing-the-craft","tag-huzzah","tag-writers-group","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}