{"id":221,"date":"2008-07-19T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-07-19T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T02:03:35","slug":"supergirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Supergirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"photo_v\">People transform when they play with children.<br \/>\nIn these pictures, look at the faces of the <em>adults<\/em>.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like bringing a box of puppies into a 3rd grade classroom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/07\/laughing_17June2008_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAuntie Allison with Lily<br \/>\n17 June 2008<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/07\/laughing_20June2008_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nUncle Sam and Auntie Bev with Damian and Lily<br \/>\n20 June 2008<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/07\/laughing_23June2008_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAndy with Damian and Lily<br \/>\n23 June 2008<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/07\/laughing_23June2008_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nLindsey with Lily<br \/>\n23 June 2008<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m attempting to write for RomancePodcast.com.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m attempting to pull wit, beauty, and insight from deep within my soul and weave these elements\u00c2\u00a0into a masterpiece of storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>But fuck! is it hard!<\/p>\n<p>Really.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not kidding.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine training for a marathon would be any harder than writing.\u00c2\u00a0 And somewhere between fear and desire, I completely forget why I started writing in the first place:\u00c2\u00a0 I really really enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>I must somehow reclaim the joy of my childhood writing experiences.\u00c2\u00a0 I was fearless.\u00c2\u00a0 I was Supergirl.\u00c2\u00a0 I wrote for no other reason than it was fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I torture myself searching for the perfect word, the perfect nuance of character, the perfect twist of plot wrapped in the perfect cadence of poetic narrative.<\/p>\n<p>I love to write.\u00c2\u00a0 Have you ever heard a toddler laugh?\u00c2\u00a0 Their laugh is pure joy and it makes everyone around them laugh.\u00c2\u00a0 The feeling you get when you hear a toddler laugh is the feeling\u00c2\u00a0I get when I am writing for the joy of it.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to let go of perfection and simply live in the experience.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult, that is not an easy thing to do, but at least now I have a beacon when darkness descends on me while I&#8217;m writing.\u00c2\u00a0 When I begin to worry if I&#8217;m writing utter crap or if I&#8217;m struggling to find perfection, I need to remind myself that once I was Supergirl&#8230; and I can be her again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People transform when they play with children. In these pictures, look at the faces of the adults. It&#8217;s like bringing a box of puppies into a 3rd grade classroom. Auntie Allison with Lily 17 June 2008 Uncle Sam and Auntie Bev with Damian and Lily 20 June 2008 Andy with Damian and Lily 23 June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}