{"id":2922,"date":"2014-01-08T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/something-true\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:57:14","slug":"something-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/something-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Something True"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reflection on writing applicable to any creative enterprise:<\/p>\n

"… that\u2019s what art is for\u2014for both reader and writer to overcome their respective limitations and encounter something true. It seems miraculous, doesn\u2019t it? That somebody can articulate something clearly and beautifully that exists inside you, something shrouded in impenetrable fog. Great art reaches through the fog, towards this secret heart\u2014and it shows it to you, holds it before you. It\u2019s a revelatory, incredibly moving experience when this happens. You feel understood. You feel heard. That\u2019s why we come to art\u2014we feel less alone. We are less alone. You see, through art, that others have felt the way you have…"<\/em><\/p>\n

                                                            novelist Khaled Hosseini from his meditation on writing<\/em><\/a>
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A reflection on writing applicable to any creative enterprise: "… that\u2019s what art is for\u2014for both reader and writer to overcome their respective limitations and encounter something true. It seems miraculous, doesn\u2019t it? That somebody can articulate something clearly and beautifully that exists inside you, something shrouded in impenetrable fog. Great art reaches through the […]<\/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-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","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=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}