{"id":597,"date":"2007-08-01T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:57:55","slug":"loss-of-parent-at-early-age-key-for-developing-the-compulsion-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Loss Of Parent At Early Age Key For Developing The Compulsion To Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m enjoying Catherine M. Andronik&#8217;s book for teens, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wildly-Romantic-English-Poets-Dangerous\/dp\/0805077839\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-6767573-7143358?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1185986287&amp;sr=8-1\">Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets (The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She writes: &quot;Like so many of his fellow poets, the key event in the early life of John Keats was the death of a parent &#8212; his father Thomas Keats [when John was nine].&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I theorize that the death of a parent when a kid is young tends to stunt his emotional and social development, thus leading him to write as a way of expressing his frustration.<\/p>\n<p>By age eight, I had retreated into a fantasy world. I&#8217;ve only intermittently left it since. I experience my strongest emotions after the triggering event, when I feel safe (and usually alone).<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m enjoying Catherine M. Andronik&#8217;s book for teens, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets (The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous). She writes: &quot;Like so many of his fellow poets, the key event in the early life of John Keats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}