{"id":87,"date":"2007-01-26T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T00:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrwilliams.edublogs.org\/2007\/01\/26\/why-do-you-write\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T00:37:44","slug":"why-do-you-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Why do you write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>It\u2019s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I \u2014 nor for that matter anyone else \u2014 will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year- old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don\u2019t intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of \u201cdiary,\u201d to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where are these quotes from? Saturday, the 2oth of June, 1942 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne_Frank_Diary\">The Diary of Anne Frank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book is now considered one of the key texts of the twentieth century. As of 2004, more than 25 million copies of the book had been sold; the book had also been translated into more than 50 languages.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you write?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I \u2014 nor for that matter anyone else \u2014 will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year- old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}