
{"id":202,"date":"2007-02-11T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T01:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2007\/02\/11\/writing-is-a-muscle-you-must-exercise\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T01:52:59","slug":"writing-is-a-muscle-you-must-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2007\/02\/11\/writing-is-a-muscle-you-must-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Is A Muscle You Must Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, my friend Jeremy introduced me to a Christian writers group here in Atlanta.  I&#8217;ve never thought of myself as a &#8220;professional&#8221; writer, I&#8217;m just an amateur (much like I&#8217;m an amateur photographer, musician, etc.)  I&#8217;m a professional computer programmer, the rest of the stuff is just hobbies.  However, the idea of sitting in with published writers and listening to the feedback they give to each others&#8217; works was too much to pass up.    I was fascinated by all of the different writings from so many different perspectives and walks of life.  <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been writing a whole lot lately, mostly just due to a lack of subject matter.  I wouldn&#8217;t call it writer&#8217;s block, but maybe the pipeline is just a little bit clogged.  Maybe having someone to review, edit, and critique some of what I write would help get the juices flowing.  Maybe I&#8217;ll have something to bring to the table at next month&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, my friend Jeremy introduced me to a Christian writers group here in Atlanta. I&#8217;ve never thought of myself as a &#8220;professional&#8221; writer, I&#8217;m just an amateur (much like I&#8217;m an amateur photographer, musician, etc.) I&#8217;m a professional computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2007\/02\/11\/writing-is-a-muscle-you-must-exercise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}