{"id":226,"date":"2005-11-25T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moremoeblows.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/25\/sound-clip-crickets-chirping-in-an-empty-auditorium\/"},"modified":"2005-11-25T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-25T21:49:00","slug":"sound-clip-crickets-chirping-in-an-empty-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Sound clip: crickets chirping in an empty auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6223\/1069\/1600\/thinking.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6223\/1069\/200\/thinking.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\">The well has run dry, my friends. I&#8217;m facing the horrible fact that I have no new ideas or any clever way of re-working a few old familiar ones into something entertaining and amusing. Writer&#8217;s block? I doubt it should be dignified with so lofty a title. More like a back eddy in the stream-of-consciousness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\">I&#8217;ve been asked how I come up with ideas for my newspaper column. The fact is I don&#8217;t. They usually find me, in the world around me,  from bits of conversations with friends, family and strangers overheard in passing. Sometimes it&#8217;s the radio. Sometimes it&#8217;s the tv. Like a penny, these bits fall into the hopper, some whirring, clanking, a few lights blink on and off as a clock-work mannequin dressed to look like a gypsy fortune teller bobs over painted cards. Click and here you go, a nice little plot line, story idea or rant, pops out of the slot all ready to go. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\">What&#8217;s the problem? I don&#8217;t know. I guess it&#8217;s one of the weeks where I just don&#8217;t feel particularly funny or insightful. A time when I wonder why anyone would want to know what&#8217;s going on underneath all that hair \u2013 perhaps a visit to my hair dresser would have helped. Probabaly not. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The well has run dry, my friends. I&#8217;m facing the horrible fact that I have no new ideas or any clever way of re-working a few old familiar ones into something entertaining and amusing. Writer&#8217;s block? I doubt it should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}