{"id":9929,"date":"2012-10-21T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T16:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2012-10-24T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T17:26:02","slug":"charles-bukowski-so-you-want-to-be-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2012\/10\/21\/charles-bukowski-so-you-want-to-be-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bukowski: So You Want to be a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-21-2012-834-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1350837100120.511\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-21-2012-834-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Charles Bukowski&#8217;s poem here advises writers on all the reasons why they should not do it. Fascinating. Inspiring. And of course complete rubbish, easily and cheerfully contradicted by the many great writers who have done it for money and food and women and adulation.<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"So You Want to Be a Writer? by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O&#039;Bedlam)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyYWpk3CqJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Via <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/19\/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer-charles-bukowski\/\" target=\"_self\">Brain Pickings<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Bukowski&#8217;s poem here advises writers on all the reasons why they should not do it. Fascinating. Inspiring. And of course complete rubbish, easily and cheerfully contradicted by the many great writers who have done it for money and food and women and adulation. Via Brain Pickings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-9929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-charles-bukowski"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10011,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}