{"id":4642,"date":"2014-03-23T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2014-03-23T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:13:47","slug":"read-read-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=4642","title":{"rendered":"Read, read, read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read, read, read. Read everything–trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You\u2019ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you\u2019ll find out. If it\u2019s not, throw it out the window. –William Faulkner<\/p>\n

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Read, read, read. Read everything–trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You\u2019ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you\u2019ll find out. If it\u2019s not, throw it out the window. –William Faulkner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Read, read, read \r\n#Faulkner #ChallengeYourself\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-1cS","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140323-081104.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-1cS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9805,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9805","url_meta":{"origin":4642,"position":0},"title":"An imaginary conversation about things I have not read","author":"Michelle","date":"April 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I've never read \"King Lear.\" \u00a0Isn't that weird?Most people probably haven't. 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