{"id":4542,"date":"2011-09-04T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2011-09-05T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:13:56","slug":"writers-prerogative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4542","title":{"rendered":"Writer&#8217;s Prerogative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Death in the Air<\/em>, Poirot says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have a great advantage as a writer . . . . You  can relieve your feelings by the expedient of the printed word. You have  the power of the pen over your enemies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes me wonder if Christie ever vented her anger at someone by writing them into a story and killing them or, worse yet, making them the murderer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Death in the Air, Poirot says, You have a great advantage as a writer . . . . You can relieve your feelings by the expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,312],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}