{"id":944,"date":"2005-06-07T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/06\/07\/approaching-the-end\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T03:46:00","slug":"approaching-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/approaching-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I can&rsquo;t think of anything more exciting than when all the pieces of a story you&rsquo;ve been working on fall into place, finally creating a coherent whole, undoing the knots you couldn&rsquo;t quite take care of before. Starting a text can be painful but oh, once you get going and you reach that point where you have most of the elements ready, where you know it&rsquo;s going to happen! You will finish the text and it will work. You just know it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, later on, there are the outsiders&rsquo; reviews, the ones that will take every single one of those pieces apart and suggest that maybe you should move this here, and maybe a little more there, and why not change this part in the middle?<\/p>\n<p>But for now, there&rsquo;s only the satisfaction of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but not quite being there yet, and that&rsquo;s okay, because it&rsquo;s nice and cool and quiet in there and you&rsquo;ll reach the end when the time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I can&rsquo;t think of anything more exciting than when all the pieces of a story you&rsquo;ve been working on fall into place, finally creating a coherent whole, undoing the knots you couldn&rsquo;t quite take care of before. Starting a text can be painful but oh, once you get going and you reach that point&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/approaching-the-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Approaching the end<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}