{"id":18,"date":"2007-07-04T07:06:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:20:45","slug":"18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Ouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/photos\/titlephotos\/accupuncture.gif\" alt=\"accupuncture\" title=\"accupuncture\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;I hear you just finished your writing degree,&#8221; she said and took my pulse.<br>&#8220;Yeah. Finished a couple of weeks ago. At The New School,&#8221; I replied.<br>&#8220;Hmmm,&#8221; she said and nodded. &#8220;I got a creative writing degree there about ten years ago. Now I do this for a living.&#8221;<br>Isn&#8217;t an acupuncturist supposed to make you feel relaxed, not cause you to question your life decisions? I guess I should get used to it.<br>But other than that, things are going well. Had a graduation party over the weekend that Matt Kressel was good enough to post some photos of. I got some very cool gifts that will help immensely with the writing process: an illustrated Strunk and White, a retro ink pen, a ream of printer paper inscribed with the touching words &#8220;get to work bitch!&#8221;, and &#8211; what every writer needs &#8211; several bottles of excellent quality tequila.<br>I think I&#8217;ll get to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hear you just finished your writing degree,&#8221; she said and took my pulse.&#8220;Yeah. Finished a couple of weeks ago. At The New School,&#8221; I replied.&#8220;Hmmm,&#8221; she said and nodded. &#8220;I got a creative writing degree there about ten years ago. Now I do this for a living.&#8221;Isn&#8217;t an acupuncturist supposed to make you feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sha1lg-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}