{"id":299,"date":"2010-04-11T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeolive.com.s47711.gridserver.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2010-04-11T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:47:48","slug":"you-know-youre-a-writer-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"You know you&#8217;re a writer when&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com.s47711.gridserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/writer-cartoon-funny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17\" title=\"writer cartoon funny\" src=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com.s47711.gridserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/writer-cartoon-funny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You know you&#8217;re a writer when;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. You record any thoughts you deem publishable.<\/p>\n<p>2. You stop in the middle of a fight with your husband to say,\u00a0&#8220;hold on honey&#8221; &#8211; to jot down a note.<\/p>\n<p>3. Your pet peeve is people who use the word &#8220;literally&#8221; incorrectly\u00a0&#8211; such as &#8220;I literally cooked each recipe in my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4. There are three empty cereal bowls next to your computer; one for each meal.<\/p>\n<p>5. Your office is any caf\u00e9 with an outlet.<\/p>\n<p>6. The fire department came when you tried to burn your 600-page manuscript in a fireplace that didn&#8217;t work, either.<\/p>\n<p>7. You\u00a0 keep a thesaurus in your purse or backpack.<\/p>\n<p>8. You&#8217;ll never forgive your parents for your happy childhood.<\/p>\n<p>9. You assess every person you meet as either good or bad character material.<\/p>\n<p>10. You run out of room on Hallmark cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;re a writer when; 1. You record any thoughts you deem publishable. 2. You stop in the middle of a fight with your husband to say,\u00a0&#8220;hold on honey&#8221; &#8211; to jot down a note. 3. Your pet peeve is people who use the word &#8220;literally&#8221; incorrectly\u00a0&#8211; such as &#8220;I literally cooked each recipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}