{"id":10552,"date":"2016-10-28T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2016-11-20T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T05:36:08","slug":"elizabeth-gilbert-living-creatively-vividly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/2016\/10\/28\/elizabeth-gilbert-living-creatively-vividly\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Gilbert on Big Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\">&#8220;Surely something wonderful is sheltered inside you. I say this with all <\/span>confidence,<span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\"> because I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. I believe this is one of the oldest and most generous tricks the universe plays on us human beings, both for its own amusement and for ours: The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\">The hunt to uncover those jewels \u2014 that\u2019s creative living.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\">The courage to go on that hunt in the first place \u2014 that\u2019s what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\">The often surprising results of that hunt \u2014 that\u2019s what I call Big Magic.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\">&#8220;Who do I think I am? I\u2019ll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have a right to collaborate with\u00a0<\/span>creativity,<span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\">\u00a0because I myself am a product and a consequence of creation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4f4f4f;\">\u2014 <strong>Elizabeth Gilbert,\u00a0<em>Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who do I think I am? I\u2019ll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have a right to collaborate with creativity, because I myself am a product and a consequence of creation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,75],"tags":[1093,702,1091,1092,1090],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-petit-mot","tag-big-magic-creative-living-beyond-fear","tag-books","tag-creative","tag-elizabeth-gilbert","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10699,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions\/10699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}