{"id":4179,"date":"2002-08-04T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-04T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/04\/"},"modified":"2002-08-04T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-04T22:40:00","slug":"4179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/04\/4179\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it&#8230;. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>-C. Day Lewis (1904 &#8211; 1972) <i>The Poetic Image<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it&#8230;. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. -C. Day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/04\/4179\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}