{"id":717,"date":"2002-01-16T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2002-01-16T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=717"},"modified":"2017-07-30T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T17:22:36","slug":"scribe-or-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/writing\/scribe-or-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribe or Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;A scribe puts words down on paper; an author puts ideas down on paper.&#8221; <br \/>Chris Crawford Erasmatazz! Volume #1 Issue 8 June 8, 1988\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAre you a scribe or an author. Under the definition above, many bloggers are scribes. I&#8217;m a scribe, but I&#8217;m trying to be an author.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nNot coincidentally, this is almost the same argument as in <a tag=\"bookmark\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/bookshelf\/clear-and-simple-as-the-truth\">Clear and Simple as the Truth<\/a>. That is, thinking precedes writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking precedes writing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/writing\/scribe-or-author\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}