{"id":447,"date":"2012-09-17T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/09\/17\/story-of-a-writer-ray-bradbury-on-storytelling-and-human-nature-in-1963-documentary\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:46:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:46:59","slug":"story-of-a-writer-ray-bradbury-on-storytelling-and-human-nature-in-1963-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/09\/17\/story-of-a-writer-ray-bradbury-on-storytelling-and-human-nature-in-1963-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of a Writer: Ray Bradbury on Storytelling and Human Nature in 1963 Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first year I made nothing, the second year I made nothing, the third year I made 10 dollars, the fourth year I made 40 dollars. I remember these. I got these indelibly stamped in there. The fifth year I made 80. The sixth year I made 200. The seventh year I made 800. Eighth year, 1,200. Ninth year, 2,000. Tenth year, 4,000. Eleventh year, 8,000 \u2026\u00a0Just get a part-time job! Anything that\u2019s half way decent! An usher in a theater \u2026 unless you\u2019re a mad man, you can\u2019t make do in the art fields! You\u2019ve gotta be inspired and mad and excited and love it more than anything else in the world!\u00a0It has to be this kind of, \u2018By God, I\u2019ve gotta do it! I\u2019ve simply gotta do it!\u2019 If you\u2019re not this excited, you can\u2019t win!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a storyteller \u2014 that\u2019s all I\u2019ve never tried to be. I guess in ancient times, I would\u2019ve been somewhere in the marketplace, alongside the magician, delighting the people. I\u2019d rather delight and entertain than anything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first year I made nothing, the second year I made nothing, the third year I made 10 dollars, the fourth year I made 40 dollars. I remember these. I got these indelibly stamped in there. The fifth year I made 80. The sixth year I made 200. The seventh year I made 800. Eighth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}