{"id":974,"date":"2012-09-12T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2012-09-12T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:02:14","slug":"the-writing-process-demonstrated-by-black-swallowtails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/12\/the-writing-process-demonstrated-by-black-swallowtails\/","title":{"rendered":"The writing process demonstrated by black swallowtails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Black_Swallowtail_larva.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60%\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/8\/8d\/Black_Swallowtail_larva.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You have an idea. It&#8217;s not pretty yet, but it has potential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Black_Swallowtail_Papilio_polyxenes_Closeup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f1\/Black_Swallowtail_Papilio_polyxenes_Closeup.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your story is starting to look pretty cool, but it&#8217;s not quite what you imagined when you started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Black_Swallowtail_Papilio_polyxenes_Chrysalis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cf\/Black_Swallowtail_Papilio_polyxenes_Chrysalis.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of hard work happens here. Or a miracle. Take your pick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Black_Swallowtail,_male,_Ottawa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"75%\" width=\"75%\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/76\/Black_Swallowtail%2C_male%2C_Ottawa.jpg\/800px-Black_Swallowtail%2C_male%2C_Ottawa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your story is finished!<\/p>\n<p>And then it mates with another story, lays eggs on your fennel, and the process starts over again. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p><em>All photos from Wikipedia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1 You have an idea. It&#8217;s not pretty yet, but it has potential. Step 2 Your story is starting to look pretty cool, but it&#8217;s not quite what you imagined when you started. Step 3 Lots of hard work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/12\/the-writing-process-demonstrated-by-black-swallowtails\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}