{"id":1808,"date":"2012-04-30T21:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T02:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2012-04-30T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T02:30:57","slug":"things-ive-recently-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve recently learned&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/craft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1745\" title=\"craft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/craft-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/craft-300x112.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/craft.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve become a big believer in &#8220;fake it until you make it,&#8221; and the realization I&#8217;ve had over the last few weeks is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>I used to vent a lot about writing, mostly out of fear that I&#8217;d run up against (another) deadline and I wouldn&#8217;t be able to meet it.<\/p>\n<p>But complaining doesn&#8217;t actually help me get anything done. Quite the opposite. Complaining doesn&#8217;t relieve my stress, it doesn&#8217;t make me work harder, and it doesn&#8217;t make me work any better.<\/p>\n<p>I made a vow to complain less. And weirdly enough, once I did, I found I dreaded writing less, too. I&#8217;m not saying writing is necessarily any easier, but once I stopped complaining about it, it stopped being scary. I decided not to complain, and I stopped having things to complain about.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, this writing cycle&#8217;s motto:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stopstart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1809\" title=\"stopstart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stopstart-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stopstart-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stopstart.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a big believer in &#8220;fake it until you make it,&#8221; and the realization I&#8217;ve had over the last few weeks is no exception. I used to vent a lot about writing, mostly out of fear that I&#8217;d run up against (another) deadline and I wouldn&#8217;t be able to meet it. But complaining doesn&#8217;t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=1808\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}