{"id":37,"date":"2011-01-29T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-03-01T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:29:13","slug":"january-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"January 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week four of the class has me focusing on Setting and Theme. I will start with theme because I believe I am the second kind of author. The first kind being those that start a book with a theme or message in mind that they want to convey. The second kind, including myself, write a story, and after it is done the theme floats to the surface and the reader shouts \u201cYes! That\u2019s it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setting is important because it is yet another way to show movement within a story. There are, of course, books (I have not read them but the grapevine is unavoidable) that take place in a single building, room, town, etc. However, why write in fantasy where I have the ability to creature at will, and then have it confined to a single sunny forest glade?<\/p>\n<p>Setting can also convey mood. The same forest can convey feelings of happiness, love, dread, fear, or anger, all depending on how you describe it, and what takes place within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week four of the class has me focusing on Setting and Theme. I will start with theme because I believe I am the second kind of author. The first kind being those that start a book with a theme or message in mind that they want to convey. The second kind, including myself, write a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}