{"id":536,"date":"2007-10-31T07:29:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/tautologies-that-tell-tales-the-pain-of-writing\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:30:55","slug":"tautologies-that-tell-tales-the-pain-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/tautologies-that-tell-tales-the-pain-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tautologies That Tell Tales; The Pain of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rarely post comments on other people's blogs, but an entry on \"hidden tautologies\" intrigued me: A Philosopher Teases Out Hidden Tautologies - Chronicle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It's nice to know I'm not alone. Rachel Toor writes in Chronicle Careers: 10\/30\/2007: Love to Write? Keep It to Yourself<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Each time I'm in the throes of writing a book, I realize that I have somehow forgotten how exhausting it is, how much it hurts. After writing for a couple of hours, I have to go lie down, wrist thrown across an aching forehead. It helps only a little to remember that I am not alone, to think of George Orwell's comment that \"writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.\"<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rarely post comments on other people’s blogs, but an entry on “hidden tautologies” intrigued me: A Philosopher Teases Out Hidden Tautologies – Chronicle.com It’s nice to know I’m not alone. Rachel Toor writes in Chronicle Careers: 10\/30\/2007: Love to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notelets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I6qs-8E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}