{"id":3171,"date":"2014-03-10T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2014-03-10T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:02:53","slug":"write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2014\/03\/write\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month in Beijing, the Bookworm Literary Festival is taking place, inviting writers from around the world to discuss literature and storytelling in all its various forms. I was lucky enough to be there for the opening session. Here&#8217;s my video of each of the night&#8217;s three authors answering the question, &#8220;Why do you write?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First, American author David Vann: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ev91LmL5agI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Followed by Chinese writer Ren Xiaowen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJirQFNwosY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, Canadian-Pakastani author Musharraf Ali Farooqi:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RqoDjUOCtQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month in Beijing, the Bookworm Literary Festival is taking place, inviting writers from around the world to discuss literature and storytelling in all its various forms. I was lucky enough to be there for the opening session. Here&#8217;s my video of each of the night&#8217;s three authors answering the question, &#8220;Why do you write?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2847,2716,2713,2714,2715,2717,2568,2843],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-beijing","tag-bookworm-literary-festival","tag-david-vann","tag-musharraf-ali-farooqi","tag-ren-xiaowen","tag-the-bookworm","tag-writers-on-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}