{"id":2732,"date":"2019-11-23T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/11\/trying-to-be-born\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:39:28","slug":"trying-to-be-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/11\/trying-to-be-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Be Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked by an interviewer about the motivation for his work, Kiowa Indian author and poet N. Scott Momaday quoted fellow writer William Gass:<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I don\u2019t write for myself, that would be self-serving<\/em><br \/><em>I don\u2019t write for an audience, that would be pandering<\/em><br \/><em>I write for the thing that is trying to be born<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/n-scott-momaday-word-from-a-bear-odljy7\/\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked by an interviewer about the motivation for his work, Kiowa Indian author and poet N. Scott Momaday quoted fellow writer William Gass: &#0160; I don\u2019t write for myself, that would be self-servingI don\u2019t write for an audience, that would be panderingI write for the thing that is trying to be born [via]<\/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-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}