{"id":81,"date":"2017-02-16T02:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illiteratures.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2019-06-12T02:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T02:50:28","slug":"variations-on-a-theme-by-rudyard-kipling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/variations-on-a-theme-by-rudyard-kipling\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations on a Theme by Rudyard Kipling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you can - always stay on the edge,\nit keeps people interested.\nBut never go over the edge,\nyou don't want to keep people too interested.\n\nIf you can, never give the people what they expect\nor what they want - or even what they think they want or expect\nbecause you are only truly remembered \nwhen you are a bastard.\n\nIf you can - be original.\nDo not be a cliche or use cliches.\nTry to use your own thoughts.\nIf you borrow an idea, make it uniquely yours.\nGreat minds think alike but so do sheep.\n\nWhen you think you have reached the end,\ndo not quit, or even think about giving it all up since that will get you remembered,\nbut sadly it will get you remembered for the wrong thing.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you can – always stay on the edge, it keeps people interested. But never go over the edge, you don’t want to keep people too interested. If you can, never give the people what they expect or what they want – or even what they think they want or expect because you are only … Continue reading “Variations on a Theme by Rudyard Kipling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}