{"id":955,"date":"2014-06-07T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=955"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:27:36","slug":"thosepeoplehaveanswers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/thosepeoplehaveanswers\/","title":{"rendered":"thosepeoplehaveanswers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those people have answers. But not <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/iusedmybelief\">writers<\/a>. We are paid for our <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/sexuality\">pain<\/a>. And our nightmares \u2026 We spend so much <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/spaceisinfinite\">time<\/a> alone, brooding, that we become obsessed with <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/iwantedtofuck\">sex<\/a>, with fame, with chimerical business deals. We hunger for <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/tellthemiamsettled\">love<\/a>, ache for <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/tradesexualityforsurvival\">sex<\/a>\u2014and yet, when we get it, dispose of it quickly so as not to let it interfere with our writing. <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/aworldthatmakesyoudeviant\">Unhappiness<\/a> is our element. We come to believe we can\u2019t function without it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readings.org\/ifoa97\/jong.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erica Jong,<\/a> <i>How to Save Your Own Life<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those people have answers. But not writers. We are paid for our pain. And our nightmares \u2026 We spend so much time alone, brooding, that we become obsessed with sex, with fame, with chimerical business deals. We hunger for love, ache for sex\u2014and yet, when we get it, dispose of it quickly so as not [&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\/955"}],"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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/955\/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=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}