{"id":3534,"date":"2014-01-28T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T01:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2014-01-28T21:54:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T01:54:57","slug":"permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3534","title":{"rendered":"Permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers!  You must give <em>yourself<\/em> permission, by a daily act of will, to believe in your remembered truth.  Do not remain nameless to yourself.  Only you can turn on the switch; nobody is going to do it for you.  Nobody gave George Gershwin permission to write &#8220;Rhapsody in Blue&#8221; at the age of 25, when he had only written 32-bar popular songs.  Nobody gave Frank Lloyd Wright permission to design a round museum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; William Zinsser, <em>The Writer Who Stayed<\/em>, p. 161<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers! You must give yourself permission, by a daily act of will, to believe in your remembered truth. Do not remain nameless to yourself. Only you can turn on the switch; nobody is going to do it for you. Nobody gave George Gershwin permission to write &#8220;Rhapsody in Blue&#8221; at the age of 25, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}