{"id":3636,"date":"2006-06-30T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2006-06-30T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T14:15:01","slug":"the_blank_page_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/the_blank_page_thing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;the blank page thing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Ellis, on what it&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=2701\">when you have trouble writing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s the blank page thing. Aaron Sorkin talked about it a bit, at the top of one of the WEST WING scriptbooks. The blank page is the only critic that can hit you where you live. In one of the episodes, in fact, a journalist asks Sam why writing a major speech is hard, and Sam says, because it\u2019s a blank piece of paper. It knows all your secrets. In Sorkin\u2019s words, it sits there and hisses, \u201cI know how you\u2019ve been scamming all those people all these years, GIFTLESS, you wanna dance with me?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Ellis, on what it&#8217;s like when you have trouble writing: It\u2019s the blank page thing. Aaron Sorkin talked about it a bit, at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}