{"id":1058,"date":"2020-01-20T06:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2020-01-20T06:01:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:01:38","slug":"the-frustrations-of-a-distracted-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"The frustrations of a distracted writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"952\" src=\"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4871.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4871.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4871-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4871-300x298.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4871-768x762.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Words swirl in my brain<br>Sentences form<br>The need to jot them down becomes<br>Overwhelmed by body busyness<br>They get forgotten<br>Left to mull in the recesses of my brain<br>Then when opportunity arises<br>They fail to appear in any form of sensical reason<br><br>Words have always been <br>my love<br>my escape<br>my weapons<br>Words feed my soul<br>I am a word devourer<br>A word fanaticist<br>And when words escape me&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need words to convey<br>myself<br>me<br>my heart<br>who I am<br>To you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To you the reader of my ramblings<br>And when I lose my words<br>I am lost<br>frustrated<br>scared<br>embarrassed<br>unsettled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I began to write what was in my heart<br>but my mind wouldn&#8217;t cooperate<br>so <br>I spill myself out<br>using words that I never intended<br>because the ones I want<br>elude me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will endeavour to slow myself<br>to breathe<br>and focus<br>and bring myself back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will search for the escapees<br>and return soon<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words swirl in my brainSentences formThe need to jot them down becomesOverwhelmed by body busynessThey get forgottenLeft to mull in the recesses of my brainThen when opportunity arisesThey fail to appear in any form of sensical reason Words have always been my lovemy escapemy weaponsWords feed my soulI am a word devourerA word fanaticistAnd when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The frustrations of a distracted writer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}