{"id":3482,"date":"2022-12-09T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/09\/the-villain-is-the-english-teacher\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:06:14","slug":"the-villain-is-the-english-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/09\/the-villain-is-the-english-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The villain is\u2026 the English teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_0929.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_0929.jpg 746w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_0929-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_0929-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_0929-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_0929-690x690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_0929-580x580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pat Mills is someone I have incredible respect for as both a writer and advocate of creativity. His Substack is required reading for me. For Mills, the villain in his creative life is the presence of his English teacher: \u201c<em>My teacher\u2019s deliberate sabotaging of my creative endeavours \u2013 for a number of personal reasons I\u2019ll get into later \u2013 actually forced me to find my own unique writing path. His negativity undoubtedly made me the writer I am today and I can see his influence in every single one of my stories\u2026 He is lurking in the shadows of all of them..<\/em>\u201d (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/iconoblast.substack.com\/p\/pageturners-introduction\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Mills\u2019 Iconoblast<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Mills is someone I have incredible respect for as both a writer and advocate of creativity. His Substack is required reading for me. For Mills, the villain in his creative life is the presence of his English teacher: \u201cMy teacher\u2019s deliberate sabotaging of my creative endeavours \u2013 for a number of personal reasons I\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}