{"id":2920,"date":"2014-01-22T05:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T10:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/seasoning\/"},"modified":"2014-01-22T05:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T10:46:04","slug":"seasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/seasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with George Saunders in the&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/gchatting-with-george-saunders\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Review<\/a>&#0160;about his new book, <em>Tenth of December<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>So much of that process [ of writing] is intuitive. Just deciding minute-by-minute, over and over again, over the period during which you\u2019re writing the story. Sort of like seasoning to taste or something like that. I think that\u2019s one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process &#8230; the quality of the split-second decisions you made&#8230;I just know from experience that my instincts are better than my cerebration.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with George Saunders in the&#0160;Paris Review&#0160;about his new book, Tenth of December: So much of that process [ of writing] is intuitive. Just deciding minute-by-minute, over and over again, over the period during which you\u2019re writing the story. Sort of like seasoning to taste or something like that. I think that\u2019s one [&hellip;]<\/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-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","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=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}