{"id":55,"date":"2007-09-30T01:11:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T07:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andybox.com\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:57:24","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=55","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed writing for most of my life. I wrote papers for school, poetry for my soul, letters for friendship and for political reasons, a novel and some screenplays for passion. At one point I wanted to make a living writing creative works. Then I realized how unlikely and difficult that was, so I got a job writing decidedly unsexy technical stuff for a while. Now I mainly write in my blog, but over the years I&#8217;ve accumulated a fairly large collection of creative and academic works, some mediocre or even embarrassingly bad, some pretty good. I&#8217;ve posted some of my favorite pieces here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=64\">Literary Criticism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=67\">Poetry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=63\">Social Essays<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=66\">Stories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=68\">Writing Pet Peeves<\/a> (Bonus!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed writing for most of my life. I wrote papers for school, poetry for my soul, letters for friendship and for political reasons, a novel and some screenplays for passion. At one point I wanted to make a living &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=55\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}