{"id":1984,"date":"2015-07-29T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2015-07-29T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:08:36","slug":"jessica-ullian-publishes-essay-in-buzzfeed-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/07\/29\/jessica-ullian-publishes-essay-in-buzzfeed-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Ullian publishes essay in BuzzFeed Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/07\/ullian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/07\/ullian.jpg\" alt=\"ullian\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/07\/ullian.jpg 314w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/07\/ullian-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/07\/ullian-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaullian.com\/\">Jessica Ulliam<\/a> (fiction &#8217;09) has recently published a moving and insightful\u00a0essay\u00a0about the struggles of being both a parent and a writer. \u00a0Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>I write from this place of forced calm because the alternative is not to write at all. I could accept that the free-spirited imagination I once had has been forever subsumed by parenthood. But I fear that would bring its own hazards. My writing, however stunted, still brings me the peace that comes from recognizing and feeding a part of myself. In turn, I bring that peace to parenting, able to give more of myself to my children because I am still a writer, even if only half the writer I want to be.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jessicaullian\/unread-books#.fpo6KZX4l\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Jessica!<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Ullian\u2019s essays and short stories have appeared in <em>Slate, Slice,<\/em> and <em>Upstreet,<\/em> and won recognition from <em>Glimmer Train<\/em> and <em>The Review Review<\/em>. She lives in Boston and is completing <em>The Relief Season<\/em>, a novel about hurricane relief workers. Follow her on Twitter at @jessicau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Ulliam (fiction &#8217;09) has recently published a moving and insightful\u00a0essay\u00a0about the struggles of being both a parent and a writer. \u00a0Here&#8217;s an excerpt: I write from this place of forced calm because the alternative is not to write at all. I could accept that the free-spirited imagination I once had has been forever subsumed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,8790],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}