{"id":2686,"date":"2021-02-02T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T23:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/02\/heartbeat-of-life\/"},"modified":"2021-02-02T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T23:09:43","slug":"heartbeat-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/02\/heartbeat-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbeat of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kerouac&#39;s writing, and often Tom Wolfe&#39;s as well, is routinely criticized for it&#39;s stream-of-consciousness format; as Truman Capote once described it: &quot;That&#39;s not writing, that&#39;s typing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Yet it is this very quality \u2013 an immediate and non-cognitive response to the world \u2013 that has made Walt Whitman a beloved, and much imitated, American poet:<\/p>\n<p><em>The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment&#8230;to put things down without deliberation&#8230;without worrying about their style&#8230;without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote, wrote, wrote\u2026 By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nitch.com\/\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kerouac&#39;s writing, and often Tom Wolfe&#39;s as well, is routinely criticized for it&#39;s stream-of-consciousness format; as Truman Capote once described it: &quot;That&#39;s not writing, that&#39;s typing.&quot; Yet it is this very quality \u2013 an immediate and non-cognitive response to the world \u2013 that has made Walt Whitman a beloved, and much imitated, American poet: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}