{"id":17357,"date":"2015-01-02T20:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17357"},"modified":"2015-01-02T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:36:27","slug":"andre-gide-tells-me-the-types-of-stories-i-should-be-writing-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/02\/andre-gide-tells-me-the-types-of-stories-i-should-be-writing-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9 Gide tells me the types of stories I should be writing in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While driving to the post office this afternoon, I caught up with  <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.org\">The Writer&#8217;s Almanac<\/a>, a podcast on which I&#8217;m way behind.  So I only today got to hear the following inspirational quote read by Garrison Keillor on  <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2014\/11\/22\">November 22, 2014<\/a>,  which was Andr\u00e9 Gide&#8217;s 145th birthday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AndreGide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AndreGide-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"AndreGide\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AndreGide-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AndreGide-1024x971.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AndreGide.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gide&#8217;s advice was&#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do my best to keep that in mind as I move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While driving to the post office this afternoon, I caught up with The Writer&#8217;s Almanac, a podcast on which I&#8217;m way behind. So I only today got to hear the following inspirational quote read by Garrison Keillor on November 22, 2014, which was Andr\u00e9 Gide&#8217;s 145th birthday: Gide&#8217;s advice was&#8212; Do not do what someone [&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":[581],"class_list":["post-17357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andre-gide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17366,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions\/17366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}