{"id":786,"date":"2013-04-09T18:12:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=786"},"modified":"2013-04-09T18:12:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:12:37","slug":"roger-ebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Roger Ebert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first exposure to Roger Ebert&#8217;s writing (outside of movie reviews) was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/rogers-journal\/the-pot-and-how-to-use-it\">The Pot and How to Use It<\/a>&#8220;, a justifiably famous blog post that was turned into a book.\u00a0 Over the past few days, that and a lot of other remarkable things he wrote have been repeated online, but one piece of advice he gave has struck me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It&#8217;s the only thing you can control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was originally something he told Will Leitch, and <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5482198\/my-roger-ebert-story\">that story is worth reading as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first exposure to Roger Ebert&#8217;s writing (outside of movie reviews) was &#8220;The Pot and How to Use It&#8220;, a justifiably famous blog post that was turned into a book.\u00a0 Over the past few days, that and a lot of other remarkable things he wrote have been repeated online, but one piece of advice he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}