{"id":304,"date":"2010-05-03T03:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-05-03T03:58:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:58:19","slug":"you-know-youre-a-writer-when-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"You know you&#8217;re a writer when&#8230;(final!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/writer-at-home1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48\" title=\"writer at home\" src=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/writer-at-home1-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re a writer when&#8230;final part!<\/p>\n<p>1. You have a working spouse who brings in the rent.<\/p>\n<p>2. You&#8217;re afraid that you&#8217;re too well-adjusted to be a writer, so you wear black to compensate.<\/p>\n<p>3. You keep a bad job because it&#8217;s good material.<\/p>\n<p>4. You envy Oscar Wilde and his last words, &#8220;Either this wallpaper goes or I do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. If they paid you not to write, you would write anyway.<\/p>\n<p>6. At parties, you check out other people&#8217;s bookshelves, the way other people snoop through medicine cabinets.<\/p>\n<p>7. You catch yourself patting your laptop, when you close it down.<\/p>\n<p>8. You think of eavesdropping as research.<\/p>\n<p>9. You get a book idea while washing the dishes.<\/p>\n<p>10. You keep a notebook under your pillow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;re a writer when&#8230;final part! 1. You have a working spouse who brings in the rent. 2. You&#8217;re afraid that you&#8217;re too well-adjusted to be a writer, so you wear black to compensate. 3. You keep a bad job because it&#8217;s good material. 4. You envy Oscar Wilde and his last words, &#8220;Either [&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\/304"}],"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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}