{"id":341876,"date":"2018-01-01T01:04:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T00:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/focus-discipline-craft\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T00:04:49","slug":"focus-discipline-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/focus-discipline-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus, Discipline, Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, you nail it hard and true<br \/>\nto the waiting page\u2026<br \/>\nalmost taking off your own fingers<br \/>\nwith the force of the mental hammer-swing.<br \/>\nOn other occasions,<br \/>\nit\u2019s like wresting an inner snake,<br \/>\nwho\u2019s fighting with all of its might<br \/>\nfrom inching out slowly<br \/>\ninto the revealing outside light.<br \/>\nThe best times, it\u2019s as easy<br \/>\nas drinking down a cold glass of beer<br \/>\non a warm, Summer afternoon.<br \/>\nWords don\u2019t just flow\u2026<br \/>\nbut are swifts and swallows,<br \/>\nswooping and dipping at impossible angles.<br \/>\nSnatching up \u2018Imagery\u2019 and \u2018Meaning\u2019<br \/>\nlike mayflies<br \/>\nfrom the waters edge of your subconscious.<br \/>\nThere is a furnace inside your heart,<br \/>\nand the filing cabinets<br \/>\nwithin the memory archives of your mind<br \/>\nfly open at a disorientating speed\u2026<br \/>\nuntil\u2026 BANG!<br \/>\nYou step into the centre<br \/>\nof the \u2018Calm Within Your Storm\u2019<br \/>\nwhere you bank and photograph<br \/>\nanother unique image of your complicated soul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/12\/focus-discipline-craft\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, you nail it hard and true to the waiting page\u2026 almost taking off your own fingers with the force of the mental hammer-swing. On other occasions, it\u2019s like wresting an inner snake, who\u2019s fighting with all of its might from inching out slowly into the revealing outside light. The best times, it\u2019s as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}