{"id":8018,"date":"2013-07-17T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2013-07-13T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T20:20:55","slug":"grow-your-soul-vonnegut-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=8018","title":{"rendered":"Grow Your Soul, Vonnegut Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven&#8217;s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Kurt Vonnegut, from <em>A Man Without a Country<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t sing in the shower, but I dance to the radio, and I tell stories, and sometimes I write lousy poems. I feel like my soul is still a tiny sapling. I hope it will grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven&#8217;s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=8018\">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],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018"}],"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=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8029,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions\/8029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}