{"id":141,"date":"2005-12-21T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/2005\/12\/21\/why-i-write\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:40:36","slug":"why-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Why I Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I write for my kids, and maybe their kids&#8230; or for folks who know me, or who want to know me.<\/p>\n<p>My big brother Paul has a line, &#8220;we are but a blink of an eye before the Supreme.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know the origin of the line, I would like to think that he crafted it&#8230; regardless, I love that line.<\/p>\n<p>Our time here is brief.<\/p>\n<p>But our words and thoughts endure.<\/p>\n<p>I have no money, no great wealth beyond these words.<\/p>\n<p>I leave my children, and their children, my words&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write for my kids, and maybe their kids&#8230; or for folks who know me, or who want to know me. My big brother Paul has a line, &#8220;we are but a blink of an eye before the Supreme.&#8221; I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}