{"id":7885,"date":"2010-08-29T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2010-08-29T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:17:01","slug":"what-youll-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/what-youll-never-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What You&#8217;ll Never Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This utterly breaks with the <em>whiskey river <\/em><strong>Friday<\/strong>s tradition here. But the most recent post there seems to demand passing around among ourselves. From <a title=\"whiskey river: from 'Berryman,' by W.S. Merwin\" href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyriver.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/i-had-hardly-begun-to-read-i-asked-how.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>whiskey river<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had hardly begun to read<br \/>\nI asked how can you ever be sure<br \/>\nthat what you write is really<br \/>\nany good at all and he said you can&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>you can&#8217;t you can never be sure<br \/>\nyou die without knowing<br \/>\nwhether anything you wrote was any good<br \/>\nif you have to be sure don&#8217;t write<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(W. S. Merwin)<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, the above are the closing stanzas of his &#8220;Berryman,&#8221; which you can read in full <a title=\"Writer's Almanac, Sept. 30, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2003\/09\/30\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, courtesy of <em>The Writer&#8217;s Almanac<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This utterly breaks with the whiskey river Fridays tradition here. But the most recent post there seems to demand passing around among ourselves. From whiskey river: I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,1393,5,251],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ruminations","7":"category-whiskey-river-runningaftermyhat","8":"category-06_writing","9":"category-poetry-writing_cat","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-23b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}