{"id":155,"date":"2010-05-30T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2010-05-30T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:27:05","slug":"faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/screenwriting\/faith","title":{"rendered":"Faith."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faith.<\/p>\n<p>You need it but where do you find it?<\/p>\n<p>Every screenwriter needs faith, whether it&#8217;s in themselves or in their deity to get them through rough patches.  Solid ground isn&#8217;t always available and I find myself hopping from one sand dune to the next, hoping it won&#8217;t swallow me up for the rest of history to come. <\/p>\n<p>I find my faith in personal experience and a higher being. Experience is my tangible concept that allows me to trust my instincts and continue forward or step back, and the higher being&#8230;well let&#8217;s just say I know they&#8217;re there, but I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d fall backwards to find out.  They&#8217;re like a net holding my faith around me like a force field making sure it doesn&#8217;t escape. <\/p>\n<p>What does all this refer to?  I have several irons in the fire, and my coals feel like their getting cold.  It&#8217;s time to stoke or get the pail of water.<\/p>\n<p>I could use faith and continue on, or I could read the warning signs and just let the fire go out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith. You need it but where do you find it? Every screenwriter needs faith, whether it&#8217;s in themselves or in their deity to get them through rough patches. Solid ground isn&#8217;t always available and I find myself hopping from one sand dune to the next, hoping it won&#8217;t swallow me up for the rest of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/screenwriting\/faith\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Faith.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-screenwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}