{"id":5168,"date":"2024-11-02T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2024-11-02T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:48:34","slug":"5168-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/5168-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After Lovecraft: Searching for Purpose in the Blank Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month, I took to reading one H. P. Lovecraft<\/a> tale each day. Took to writing afterward too, capturing his voice and style in ways I\u2019d come to appreciate like a ritual\u2014a communion with the page. The pattern of it, predictable, dependable. But done till October, the project quiet now, and something\u2019s been taken with it. I still write, sure. VIKINGS vs SAMURAI<\/a> is about the comic book and everything related to it. My journal is where I capture moments and process my thoughts and feelings. But what will bring that same purpose to the blank screen now? What will drive the words?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what I\u2019m left to reckon with in the weeks, or months, ahead.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read Lovecraft daily\u2014a ritual, gone now, leaving the blank screen bare. What purpose to fill it with next? That\u2019s the puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-blog","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}