{"id":2662,"date":"2023-03-03T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khaledosman.fr\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:41:37","slug":"i-dont-believe-all-that-much-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/2023\/03\/i-dont-believe-all-that-much-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&rsquo;t believe all that much in writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00ab\u00a0The truth is, I don\u2019t believe all that much in writing. Starting with my own. Being a writer is pleasant \u2014 no, pleasant isn\u2019t the word \u2014 it\u2019s an activity that has its share of amusing moments, but I know of other things that are even more amusing, amusing in the same way that literature is for me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding up banks, for example. Or directing movies. Or being a gigolo. Or being a child again and playing on a more or less apocalyptic soccer team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately, the child grows up, the bank robber is killed, the director runs out of money, the gigolo gets sick and then there\u2019s no other choice but to write.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For me, the word writing is the exact opposite of the word waiting. Instead of waiting, there is writing.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roberto Bola\u00f1o<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0The truth is, I don\u2019t believe all that much in writing. Starting with my own. Being a writer is pleasant \u2014 no, pleasant isn\u2019t the word \u2014 it\u2019s an activity that has its share of amusing moments, but I know&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/2023\/03\/i-dont-believe-all-that-much-in-writing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,5],"tags":[180,181],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extraitlitteraire","category-litterature","tag-litteratures-du-monde","tag-roberto-bolano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaledosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}