{"id":879,"date":"2014-06-07T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T15:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=879"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:15:59","slug":"intimateletter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/intimateletter\/","title":{"rendered":"intimateletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The less conscious one is of being &#8216;a writer,&#8217; the better the <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/allwritingisconfession\">writing<\/a>. And though reading is the best school of writing, school is the worst place for reading. Writing should &#8230; be as spontaneous and urgent as a <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/ithoughtofhimreadingit\">letter to a lover<\/a>, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent &#8230; and <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/iamgrownup\">writing<\/a> is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/dontwritealoveletter\">intimate letter<\/a> to a stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottlondon.com\/insight\/scripts\/iyer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pico Iyer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The less conscious one is of being &#8216;a writer,&#8217; the better the writing. And though reading is the best school of writing, school is the worst place for reading. Writing should &#8230; be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}