{"id":2,"date":"2007-02-07T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:15:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Ronin Writer, a forum for drippings from my brain to yours on the writing life. If you&#8217;re a writer, whether a fledgling or a long-time pro, you can learn a lot from the old interviews posted here.\u00a0 I know I have.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about evolution. The universe IS evolution and change.<\/p>\n<p>So what does the &#8220;ronin&#8221; thing mean? <em>Ronin<\/em> is a Japanese word that means <em>masterless samurai.<\/em> They were independent warriors, either cast adrift on the waves of the world by their lords or by the cruel hand of fate. They were outcasts, but powerful outcasts, because they were still warriors, and thus, dangerous. You won&#8217;t find many real weapons around these parts, except for words, although I do love me a well-made katana&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not that any spammer will actually read this, but I have absolute zero tolerance for spam. Anything remotely resembling spam will be deleted immediately.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ftravisheermann.com%2Fblog%2Fabout%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Ronin Writer, a forum for drippings from my brain to yours on the writing life. If you&#8217;re a writer, whether a fledgling or a long-time pro, you can learn a lot from the old interviews posted here.\u00a0 I know I have.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about evolution. The universe IS evolution and change. So what does the &#8220;ronin&#8221; thing mean? Ronin is a Japanese word that means masterless samurai. They were independent warriors, either cast adrift on the waves of the world by their lords or by the cruel hand of fate. They were outcasts, but powerful outcasts, because they<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About This Blog<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:15:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}