{"id":8742,"date":"2015-03-06T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2015-03-04T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:41:34","slug":"er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8742","title":{"rendered":"Er?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had (have had, and will likely continue to have) a discussion about what makes a writer, or a singer or a photographer. An -er of some sort. While my views have refined themselves over the years I still hold (mostly) to  a definition I came up with in University. An -er is someone who not only produces something, but also maintains a relationship \u2014 of a two-way sort \u2014 with an audience. There are all sorts of quibbles, exceptions, misunderstandings and outright illogic about it, especially when you talk about\/add in things like ego, volume vs quality, the difference between art and craft and what makes a teacher a teacher and not just a teacher. But mostly I stick to it. As Mssr. Henderson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/raino-lyrics-chilliwack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chilliwack<\/a> put it, &#8220;&#8230;if there&#8217;s no audience, there just-a ain&#8217;t no show. Whoa, whoa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By this definitions Emily Dickinson was not a poet (or poeter as I like to call them). When I repeat that, it generally makes Leslie cringe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/emily-no.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/emily-no-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"emily no\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-8743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/emily-no-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/emily-no.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banksy\" target=\"_blank\">Banksy<\/a>, on the other hand, is all sorts of -er. I don&#8217;t know what other people think about that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banksy-yes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banksy-yes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"banksy-yes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-8746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banksy-yes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banksy-yes.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had (have had, and will likely continue to have) a discussion about what makes a writer, or a singer or a photographer. An -er of some sort. While my views have refined themselves over the years I still hold (mostly) to a definition I came up with in University. An -er is someone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}