{"id":100,"date":"2005-07-13T21:05:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2005-07-13T21:05:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T04:05:45","slug":"bottled-candor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Candor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to write something tonight about some basic criteria for judging comic book stories — stories presented in any medium, really — but today was not a good day.<\/p>\n

It’s still not. Words are tripping all over each other in my head. For a writer that’s the worst kind of torture. For this writer, anyway.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I slip too easily into the role of entertainer. I find I’m doing that with this blog and, as a result, subverting its original purpose. When I started it a few months ago, my mission was simply to write *something* every day. More recently, I’ve avoided posting unless I had *something interesting* to say. And I’ve been holding back the darker stuff that runs through my mind, because I haven’t wanted to subject you to that — or scare you — or worry you — or indulge the depression.<\/p>\n

Maybe, for my own sake, I need to concern myself less with entertainment here and more with candor. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to write something tonight about some basic criteria for judging comic book stories — stories presented in any medium, really — but today was not a good day. It’s still not. Words are tripping all over each other in my head. For a writer that’s the worst kind of torture. For this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}