{"id":2764,"date":"2018-11-13T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/11\/and-only-then\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:08:31","slug":"and-only-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/11\/and-only-then\/","title":{"rendered":"And Only Then&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Annie Dillard&#39;s telling observations on writing are relevant to creative endeavors generally.&#0160; As someone who spent years wandering through nature, searching without knowing what exactly I was looking for, this description is spot-on:<\/p>\n<p><em>At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then \u2014 and only then \u2014 it is handed to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2013\/08\/09\/annie-dillard-on-writing\/\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3bfb2f4200b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3069\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3bfb2f4200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3bfb2f4200b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3069\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Annie Dillard&#39;s telling observations on writing are relevant to creative endeavors generally.&#0160; As someone who spent years wandering through nature, searching without knowing what exactly I was looking for, this description is spot-on: At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if [&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-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","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=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}