{"id":3507,"date":"2017-10-01T19:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2017-10-01T19:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:24:23","slug":"day-1-why-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2017\/10\/01\/day-1-why-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: WHY&#8230;why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, the idea of WHY popped into my head. So that has to be my first and most honest answer.<\/p>\n<p>Second, WHY is a question that can focus my writing without locking me in right away. I am in the process of discovering my specific voice, what message I might share with the world. I have some ideas. But I don&#8217;t know it all the way yet. So WHY will let me explore a bit, while also letting me &#8220;cheat&#8221; by still posting about my kids or normal life or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Third, WHY is a critical thinking question. If you want to dive into an idea or a person, WHY is the very best place to start. It makes us process more fully. It demands more than half-hearted answers. WHY pushes us to think more deeply and broadly, and that makes me a tiny bit excited. (I&#8217;m weird, I know.)<\/p>\n<p>Last, WHY is a brave question. To ask it. To answer it. There&#8217;s no fluff there. It takes courage to engage with an idea or another person with a WHY. Why do you think that? Why did such-n-such have to happen? Why don&#8217;t I believe this? It&#8217;s a mildly terrifying thing, to face down the WHY. But that kind of courage, I believe, is always rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s dive in&#8230;to WHY?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, the idea of WHY popped into my head. So that has to be my first and most honest answer. Second, WHY is a question that can focus my writing without locking me in right away. I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2017\/10\/01\/day-1-why-why\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-31-days-of-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}