{"id":5124,"date":"2022-12-21T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"the-quiet-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5124","title":{"rendered":"THE QUIET ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now and then, when I sit down to write a blogpost, I spin my wheels, staring at a blank screen for 15 minutes straight.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I start typing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delete.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes that&#8217;s because I have nothing to say.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More often because I have too much to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either way, my head is full of words and ideas. It&#8217;s just hard to force them out in the open.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose &#8211; when I think about it &#8211; it&#8217;s much the same way when I am with another person.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now and then, when I sit down to write a blogpost, I spin my wheels, staring at a blank screen for 15 minutes straight.\u00a0 I start typing.\u00a0 Stop. Delete.\u00a0 Sometimes that&#8217;s because I have nothing to say. More often because I have too much to say.\u00a0 Either way, my head is full of words and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}