{"id":730,"date":"2013-02-13T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:22:15","slug":"scenes-from-inside-the-writers-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/scenes-from-inside-the-writers-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Inside the Writer&#8217;s Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Said my friend Patrick: &#8220;My writer&#8217;s cave is littered with the bones of animals I&#8217;ve tried to create.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone frame\" title=\"create or die\" src=\"http:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/images\/attempts-at-creation.jpg\" alt=\"the writer's cave\" width=\"458\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Writer&#8217;s Cave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We call it our writer&#8217;s cave<\/p>\n<p>We drag carcasses from out of the light<\/p>\n<p>To study them as they decay<\/p>\n<p>We prop them and we pose them<\/p>\n<p>We light a torch<\/p>\n<p>To see their shadows dance and run<\/p>\n<p>We trace their shapes with charcoal<\/p>\n<p>To adorn our walls<\/p>\n<p>We stare at the smudges<\/p>\n<p>And imagine life outside<\/p>\n<p>We forget to eat<\/p>\n<p>And fall asleep hungry<\/p>\n<p>Dreaming of food<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone frame\" title=\"to bed without dinner\" src=\"http:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/images\/the-hungry-writer.jpg\" alt=\"dreams of food\" width=\"458\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading. Cheers,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5 alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Greg\" src=\"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/images\/greg_signed72.jpg\" alt=\"Greg\" width=\"72\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Images from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcfilms.com\/films\/cave-of-forgotten-dreams\">Cave of Forgotten Dreams<\/a><\/em> by the incomparable and delightfully befuddling filmmaker Werner Herzog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Said my friend Patrick: &#8220;My writer&#8217;s cave is littered with the bones of animals I&#8217;ve tried to create.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}