{"id":2888,"date":"2014-10-05T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/what-kind-of-egg-2\/"},"modified":"2014-10-05T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:59:27","slug":"what-kind-of-egg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/what-kind-of-egg-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet T. S. Eliot, writing about the creative process, described a feeling of release &#8212; when quotidian stresses momentarily lift and allow one an unimpeded path to deeper understanding:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;we do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2012\/09\/26\/t-s-eliot-on-creativity\/\" target=\"_self\">[thanks Brain Pickings]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b7c6edcd4a970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"328\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b7c6edcd4a970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b7c6edcd4a970b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet T. S. Eliot, writing about the creative process, described a feeling of release &#8212; when quotidian stresses momentarily lift and allow one an unimpeded path to deeper understanding: &#8230;we do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on. [thanks Brain Pickings] &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","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=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}