{"id":15405,"date":"2012-04-24T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2012\/04\/24\/researched-to-bits\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:14","slug":"researched-to-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2012\/04\/24\/researched-to-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Researched to bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I finished the research for my fifth novel. <em>Phew! <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, that was the easy part, because there\u0092s no personal risk in doing research. And yet, there\u0092s always this sense of needing to <em>earn<\/em> the right to write about the topic, which just gets deeper and deeper the more details you discover.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That notion is garbage, though, creatively speaking, because at a certain point &#8212; the point I\u0092m at now &#8212; I have to take a leap and just <em>make something up.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I finished the research for my fifth novel. Phew! In a sense, that was the easy part, because there\u0092s no personal risk in doing research. And yet, there\u0092s always this sense of needing to earn the right to write about the topic, which just gets deeper and deeper the more details you discover. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}