{"id":3503,"date":"2013-05-07T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2013-05-07T18:43:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:43:10","slug":"ritter-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/ritter-on-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritter on Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130507-124046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full \" alt=\"20130507-124046.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130507-124046.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from the Josh Ritter Wikipedia page (Ref. 1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I very much enjoyed this interview by Eric Danton with musician Josh Ritter. I was impressed by his perspective on being a writer, especially in moments of personal crisis. Referring to the end of his marriage, Ritter says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This was an important moment for me, it was a big moment in my life, and I felt like if I didn\u2019t write about this I was betraying what it was to be a writer,\u201d he says. \u201cTo get to this point in my career and not write about that, felt foolish.&#8221; He also tried not to censor what he was writing, which led to some raw moments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more, check out the interview:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/N7BXYDJ3iv\">&#8220;JOSH RITTER ON STORYTELLING, FICTION WRITING AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY&#8221;, by Eric Danton, &#8220;Listen, Dammit&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josh_Ritter\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josh_Ritter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I very much enjoyed this interview by Eric Danton with musician Josh Ritter. I was impressed by his perspective on being a writer, especially in moments of personal crisis. Referring to the end of his marriage, Ritter says, &#8220;This was an important moment for me, it was a big moment in my life, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133,158],"tags":[173,172,38,171],"class_list":{"0":"post-3503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-current-events","7":"category-writing","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-interview","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-writing-2","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}