{"id":6,"date":"2015-02-03T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2015-02-03T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:35:45","slug":"on-getting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/on-getting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"on it getting out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the month of January in Europe with Columbia College Chicago\u2019s journalism department. My classmates and I were required to <a href=\"https:\/\/alexastir.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">blog about our trip<\/a> throughout the duration of the course, and I sort of really loved it.<\/p>\n<p>Every writer tells themselves that they\u2019ll start blogging. They\u2019ll turn those 3am thoughts scribbled on cocktail napkins into narratives and actually finish the poems written during the cab ride home in the Notes application on their phones.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been telling myself this for years. I\u2019ve got the half-filled Moleskins and heroic couplets to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>After being forced to blog, I became addicted to it. When something remotely interesting happened, I would immediately think, \u201cThat would make a great blog post.\u201d I thought that once I left Europe I would stop analyzing my day-to-day routine. If anything, I\u2019ve begun to do it even more.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a strange pleasure in blogging. It\u2019s cathartic. It\u2019s therapy, minus an uncomfortable chair and narcissistic woman asking me questions about my mother and kindergarten crush.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m getting it out. All of the noise clogging my head and opinions that I can\u2019t express. All of my bad ideas and amazing mistakes. I\u2019m getting it out of my head. Out of my iPhone. Out of my diary and onto something I can\u2019t crumple up and throw away when it doesn\u2019t work out the way I planned it to. Something that requires me to be responsible for my words and actions and actually learn from all the dumb, reckless things I do.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone else could learn from them, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the month of January in Europe with Columbia College Chicago\u2019s journalism department. My classmates and I were required to blog about our trip throughout the duration of the course, and I sort of really loved it. Every writer tells themselves that they\u2019ll start blogging. They\u2019ll turn those 3am thoughts scribbled on cocktail napkins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/on-getting-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">on it getting out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,7,8],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-diary","tag-text","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HHH1-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axharrell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}