{"id":315,"date":"2005-04-27T20:02:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/?p=315"},"modified":"2008-10-01T22:48:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:48:54","slug":"the-nature-of-musing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/2005\/04\/the-nature-of-musing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Musing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/journal\/?p=321\">Post has moved here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"essay-teaser\">\n<p>Muses. Imaginary Friends. Characters.<\/p>\n<p>As best I can tell, you know, the three have always been much the same thing to me. I vaguely recall having imaginary friends (one or two) who were not either my characters or someone else&#8217;s, but the characters, and the stories I could tell around them and me definitely predominated, as far back as I can remember. My terminology is the only thing that&#8217;s really changed over time, as I called them imaginary friends, and then characters, and then muses&mdash;that last happening when I got involved in fandom and fanfic, where it seemed to be the going vocabulary term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}