{"id":2175,"date":"2009-11-11T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2009-11-11T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T05:02:07","slug":"repostletters-of-note-your-own-private-book-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/11\/repostletters-of-note-your-own-private-book-event\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Letters of Note: Your own private book event"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Well, tell your dead grandpa the old German (Goethe) saying: &#8220;The longer you look, the more stars you see&#8230;&#8221; I prefer that to going crazy. It&#8217;s the same with meditation, how you can find the entire world in a single object or activity.<strong> Once you commit your life to a passion, you find that things open up. Still, it seems like a paradox. Most people never fully commit to their art, out of fear of losing options. But commitment brings more options than you&#8217;d ever lose.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/11\/your-own-private-book-event.html\">Letters of Note: Your own private book event<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole letter. This was written by Chuck Palahniuk. (The Author of The Fight Club.)<br \/>\nI loved reading the whole thing so hope you see the scanned original. From the marvelous blog Letters of Note!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, tell your dead grandpa the old German (Goethe) saying: &#8220;The longer you look, the more stars you see&#8230;&#8221; I prefer that to going crazy. It&#8217;s the same with meditation, how you can find the entire world in a single object or activity. Once you commit your life to a passion, you find that things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/11\/repostletters-of-note-your-own-private-book-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Letters of Note: Your own private book event&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,62,69,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-to-read","category-personal-angol","category-praise","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}