{"id":3975,"date":"2011-03-17T14:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2011-07-03T07:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T11:20:32","slug":"i-was-asked-why-i-dont-write-things-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/2011\/03\/i-was-asked-why-i-dont-write-things-down\/","title":{"rendered":"I was asked why I don&#8217;t write things down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One interrogator accused me of bad faith: that if I sincerely felt so deeply on the matter, I should write more about it. But what I gain most from nature is beyond words. To try to capture it verbally immediately places me in the same boat as the namers and would-be owners of nature: that is, it exiles me from what I most need to learn. It is a little as it is in atomic physics, where the very act of observation changes what is observed; though here the catch lies in trying to describe the observation. To enter upon such a description is like trying to capture the uncapturable. Its only purpose can be to flatter the vanity of the describer &#8211; a function painfully obvious in many of the more sentimental natural history writers.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; John Fowles, <em>The Tree<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One interrogator accused me of bad faith: that if I sincerely felt so deeply on the matter, I should write more about it. But what I gain most from nature is beyond words. To try to capture it verbally immediately &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/2011\/03\/i-was-asked-why-i-dont-write-things-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[25,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voidofinspiration.com\/voidofinspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}