{"id":8950,"date":"2025-06-04T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:36:09","slug":"ursula-leguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=8950","title":{"rendered":"Ursula LeGuin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went looking for that quote about wants and needs again.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/ten-things-i-learned-from-ursula-k-le-guin\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/ten-things-i-learned-from-ursula-k-le-guin\/\">Found this tribute<\/a> that led with these lines:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don\u2019t, our lives get made up for us by other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Ursula K. Le Guin, <em>The Wave in the Mind<\/em>, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went looking for that quote about wants and needs again. Found this tribute that led with these lines: All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don\u2019t, our lives get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=8950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ursula LeGuin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2km","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8951,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions\/8951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}