{"id":4250,"date":"2011-07-09T13:21:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T17:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2011-07-09T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T17:21:20","slug":"first-ink-pen-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4250","title":{"rendered":"First Ink (Pen redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drew my mightier-than-the-sword pen and spilled ink on the virgin page.\u00a0 I came, I saw, I wrote.\u00a0 This page, nay, this journal is mine!<\/p>\n<p>A humorous event:\u00a0\u00a0 I asked my wife, who was running an errand yesterday near the stationary store, to pick up a new Cross refill for my pen.\u00a0 Late this morning while writing something at work, the cartridge ran out of ink.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been thinking for some time I was about ready for a refill, but it wasn&#8217;t until yesterday I felt it with some urgency.\u00a0 Maybe the pen and I have some strange supernatural connection?<\/p>\n<p>So the ink I laid down on the pure, white page was itself, also virgin, fresh, pure.<\/p>\n<p>Was that ink at the top of the cartridge,\u00a0what emerged first, thicker, richer, the fatter part risen to the top, perfect for lush, dense, amazon sentences?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew my mightier-than-the-sword pen and spilled ink on the virgin page.\u00a0 I came, I saw, I wrote.\u00a0 This page, nay, this journal is mine! A humorous event:\u00a0\u00a0 I asked my wife, who was running an errand yesterday near the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,13],"tags":[641,624,622,1076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}