{"id":1592,"date":"2014-10-15T12:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:43:35","slug":"why-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Why I Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stories and storytelling mean everything to me.<\/p>\n<p>As a young adult my head was buzzing with new worlds, new characters, and new conflicts to explore. The stories poured out of me. Romances, thrillers, YA&#8217;s, paranormals, fantasies, horror. I couldn&#8217;t write them down fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of doing chores, I wrote. Instead of hanging out with friends, I wrote. I&#8217;m a abashed to admit I even stayed home from high school to write.<\/p>\n<p>That passion for creating worlds has stuck with me. I truly believe that writing is an essential part of me. A part I hold very dear.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as an adult, I have the unbelievably exciting privilege of writing for an audience.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this exciting new journey with me.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;3 Anna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories and storytelling mean everything to me. As a young adult my head was buzzing with new worlds, new characters, and new conflicts to explore. The stories poured out of me. Romances, thrillers, YA&#8217;s, paranormals, fantasies, horror. I couldn&#8217;t write them down fast enough. Instead of doing chores, I wrote. Instead of hanging out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,278,368],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-anna-abner","tag-romance","tag-writer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Wkl2-pG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}