{"id":211,"date":"2011-10-17T18:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2011-10-17T18:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:54:23","slug":"my-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/my-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"My nightmare&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read what other people write and I&#8217;m full of envy. I wish I could be the creative writer I&#8217;ve always dreamed of being. The problem is that <span class='bm_keywordlink'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/01\/here-i-go-again-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\">life<\/a><\/span> always gets in the fucking way.<\/p>\n<p>There are very few times in my day that I could honestly <strong>not<\/strong> say &#8220;I&#8217;d rather be writing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I often think about how much better of a writer I would be if I only had the time to seriously sharpen my skills. If I have any skill that is. Come on now, just look at the first sentence of this paragraph, holy shit do I need some help!<\/p>\n<p>I remember someone telling me that being <strong><em>good<\/em><\/strong> at anything takes dedication, at least 40 hours a week. To be <strong><em>great<\/em><\/strong> at anything you have to eat, sleep and shit that very thing 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never be good at anything!<\/p>\n<p>My demons are strong today&#8230;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sankinator.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F10%2F17%2Fmy-nightmare%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read what other people write and I&#8217;m full of envy. I wish I could be the creative writer I&#8217;ve always dreamed of being. The problem is that life always gets in the fucking way. There are very few times in my day that I could honestly not say &#8220;I&#8217;d rather be writing.&#8221; I often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sankinator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}