{"id":6091,"date":"2023-12-21T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:42:11","slug":"compelled-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6091","title":{"rendered":"COMPELLED TO WRITE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When God reveals insights into life, history, theology, I must speak up and record, with or without an audience or a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often imagine what a reaction might be someday, but until then I think and write without catering to anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps that is good, because I tend to be too sensitive about what other people think.<br>Yet, that very sensitivity drives me to scrutinize my editing for the best communication possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, since my writing also includes volatile subjects, some in real life, I use the following commentary to assuage as well as heighten the seriousness:<br>&#8220;Perhaps the smaller my audience, the longer I&#8217;ll live.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God reveals insights into life, history, theology, I must speak up and record, with or without an audience or a response. I often imagine what a reaction might be someday, but until then I think and write without catering to anyone. Perhaps that is good, because I tend to be too sensitive about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}