{"id":2767,"date":"2018-10-24T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/10\/not-feeling\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:53:43","slug":"not-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/10\/not-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across some thoughts expressed by poet e.e. cummings on being true to one&#39;s inner voice and, in keeping with one of the themes of this blog, namely to trust creative instinct over intellect, I thought this pithy observation relevant not only to poetry, but to the creative process in general:<\/p>\n<p><em>A lot of people think or believe or know they feel \u2014 but that\u2019s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling \u2014 not knowing or believing or thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/?s=A+lot+of+people+think+or+believe+or+know+they+feel\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3756390200c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3068\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3756390200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3756390200c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3068\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across some thoughts expressed by poet e.e. cummings on being true to one&#39;s inner voice and, in keeping with one of the themes of this blog, namely to trust creative instinct over intellect, I thought this pithy observation relevant not only to poetry, but to the creative process in general: A lot of people [&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-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}