{"id":340,"date":"2015-02-17T23:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencedavis.org\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:48:23","slug":"i-have-almost-abandoned-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/2015\/02\/i-have-almost-abandoned-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I have almost abandoned writing&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Excerpt from a letter Lawrence wrote sometime in late 1976 &#8212; on 24-staff manuscript paper!\u00a0 I had no idea that he had an interest in programming, something else we had in common. &#8211; CHC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It had been my intention to write for some time.\u00a0 Believe me &#8212; I think of you often, even though I have almost abandoned writing for other means of expression &#8212; most especially music.\u00a0 I wrote a piece based on student poetry which we performed last November and I composed music for <em>Antigone<\/em> (Sophocles).\u00a0 I find words to be unspecific.\u00a0 Perhaps my vocabulary is just too limited.\u00a0 I have not written one poem since last September.<\/p>\n<p>I have been learning computer programming.\u00a0 I have already written several programs to help me with the small amount of administrative work I have in my job.\u00a0 This will also be a summer job for me.\u00a0 I am creating an experimental data-retrieval system for our library.\u00a0 I will also be compiling statistics on college boards, etc. for our college guidance people.\u00a0 It has added a new dimension to my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from a letter Lawrence wrote sometime in late 1976 &#8212; on 24-staff manuscript paper!\u00a0 I had no idea that he had an interest in programming, something else we had in common. &#8211; CHC It had been my intention to write for some time.\u00a0 Believe me &#8212; I think of you often, even though I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}