{"id":2280,"date":"2014-11-25T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:11:25","slug":"its-not-the-most-gifted-norman-mailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/quotes-of-inspiration\/its-not-the-most-gifted-norman-mailer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; . . . it&#8217;s not the most gifted. . .&#8221; \u2014 Norman Mailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-deep-burgandy-color has-text-color has-link-color has-def-font-size wp-elements-2e903e29df0167a7514fcba3832747f3 has-background\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:600;background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/smudge1.png&apos;);background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;\"><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Norman-Mailer.png\">Norman Mailer<\/a>\u201cIn writing, as in so many pursuits, it\u2019s not the most gifted but the most determined who succeed.<\/p><cite>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/norman-mailer-9395669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norman Mailer<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Mailer\u201cIn writing, as in so many pursuits, it\u2019s not the most gifted but the most determined who succeed. \u2014 Norman Mailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-with-comments","format":"standard","meta":{"selected_specialist_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[924,2447,2215,2042,2053],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-just-write","tag-norman-mailer","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14920,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/14920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}