{"id":275,"date":"2019-04-08T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:43:09","slug":"self-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/self-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing is an act of self discipline and meditation that can fortify the soul. Foucault writes, &#8220;writing about inner impulses appears&#8230;as a weapon in spiritual combat&#8230;. by bringing to light the impulses of thought, it dispels the darkness where the enemy&#8217;s plots are hatched&#8221;(1). When an individual writes, they are turning their fluid ideas into concrete words which makes the individual reflect on those thoughts. Writing is an act of self discipline, because it makes you stop to correct sinful ideas. If you can&#8217;t gather yourself to write foul notions, then you wouldn&#8217;t say them aloud either. It is a circular meditation process that causes one to think, write, reread, and think again as to what those words on the page mean and doing so, it cleanses the soul by halting the entertainment of sinful thoughts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing is an act of self discipline and meditation that can fortify the soul. Foucault writes, &#8220;writing about inner impulses appears&#8230;as a weapon in spiritual combat&#8230;. by bringing to light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/self-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self Writing<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}