{"id":281,"date":"2009-09-16T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-09-16T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:43:22","slug":"sink-or-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"sink or swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten in over my head, or I&#8217;m afraid that I have. But I think I&#8217;m willing to risk drowning. I got accepted into a IPRC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/iprc.dreamhosters.com\/news\/certificate-program-2\">writing certificate program<\/a>. And they are not fucking around. There&#8217;s lots of writing and lots of reading. And it&#8217;s all due now. Ok not right this very minute. But you get the gist.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to write some fiction. I&#8217;ve got to do it this week. And I haven&#8217;t really written fiction before. To be honest I&#8217;m scared I&#8217;ll write something craptacular. Not even in a spectacular way, but an ordinary way. I&#8217;m also scared I&#8217;ll become insufferably narcissistic. All I&#8217;ve talked about with RU the last two days is me, me, me.<\/p>\n<p>Who does justice work for? It doesn&#8217;t work for you if you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AOFTAVaeHWw\">black and a dyke<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten in over my head, or I&#8217;m afraid that I have. But I think I&#8217;m willing to risk drowning. I got accepted into a IPRC&#8217;s writing certificate program. And they are not fucking around. There&#8217;s lots of writing and lots of reading. And it&#8217;s all due now. Ok not right this very minute. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}