{"id":196,"date":"2022-11-20T05:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2022-11-20T05:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:41:41","slug":"inspirations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/inspirations\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a child I loved writing to authors whose words thunderbolted me.   I treasure their letters as much as their works  &#8211; and the time they took to reply to a nosy Aussie-Cypriot kid making inquiries about being a writer. Here are three such letters: Max Fatchen in his inimitable style, Joan Aiken with her memorable writing tips and page one from Michelle Margorian whose detailed, four page letter moves me to this day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Max-Fatchen-letter-850x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" width=\"516\" height=\"622\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Joan-Aiken-919x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" width=\"550\" height=\"612\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michelle-Marjorian-966x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" width=\"600\" height=\"636\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child I loved writing to authors whose words thunderbolted me. I treasure their letters as much as their works &#8211; and the time they took to reply to a nosy Aussie-Cypriot kid making inquiries about being a writer. Here are three such letters: Max Fatchen in his inimitable style, Joan Aiken with her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriniloucaides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}