“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n
Already we have a Best Quote of the New Year (although I must admit that it’s only one – more great ones at Kelly’s<\/a>). Those immortal words come from the incredible Archie Leach… oh, wait, never heard of him? Sorry, sorry, let me tell you his “real” name: Cary Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n Making resolutions about changing who we are always brings to mind actors to me — people who imagined a character and then assimilated those values and traits successfully enough to draw success to themselves in turn. Archie Leach was a latchkey kid who had seriously problematic parents, but he truly hustled and turned himself into the icon he’s remembered as today.<\/p>\n Something to think about.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, there’s a new secret agent in the house! Congratulations to Secret Agent Jen, aka “literaticat”<\/a>, the newest agent at Andrea Brown<\/a>! Just… don’t send her any religious or talking animal stories, and you can stay her friend.<\/p>\n Oh, sorry. Are you still groggy? Fine then — go back to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}