{"id":14,"date":"2016-07-17T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:49:52","slug":"helen-is-playing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration and Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI write when I&#8217;m inspired, and I see to it that I&#8217;m inspired at nine o&#8217;clock every morning.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Peter de Vries<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Chair with Mountains, by Richard Salsbury<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1140342-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Slatted wooden bench on stone crag in foreground. The perspective from bench is across water to a snow topped mountain range and cummulous sky.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1140342-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1140342-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1140342-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cA writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>William Stafford<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris-rigby.co.uk\/portfolio\/themes\/shetland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shetland Paintings by Chris Rigby<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is a link to an artist I recently discovered in a Shetland Gallery.<br \/>He has a way with rocks.<br \/>His landscapes are huge and the detail of the rock which composes the cliffs is intimately textured, totally known. You are not standing looking at a painting, but standing in the presence of the rocks themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cClose the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don&#8217;t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It&#8217;s the one and only thing you have to offer.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Barbara Kingsolver<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI write when I&#8217;m inspired, and I see to it that I&#8217;m inspired at nine o&#8217;clock every morning.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=14\">&sim;&nbsp;Continue Reading&nbsp;&sim;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/505"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}