{"id":1721,"date":"2026-03-17T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:33:23","slug":"michelle-zauner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/17\/michelle-zauner\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Zauner"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think of it as an archive and it really helps me creatively to think that way, because sometimes when I get really self-conscious or down on myself for what I\u2019ve made\u2014when I feel like it could have been better\u2014I try to remind myself, \u201cThis is just who you are in this moment. You did your best and you committed a certain amount of time to this, and that\u2019s what creative work is.\u201d Like when I wrote my book, after five years of working very diligently, I was so disappointed with the results. I imagined it being this really exceptional thing, and I had landed five steps below where I wanted to be as a writer. Ultimately, I always try to remind myself, \u201cThis is just your archive. This is the best you can do at 26. This is the best you can do at 30.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Muusikko\/kirjailija\/ohjaaja <a href=\"http:\/\/michellezauner.com\/\">Michelle Zauner<\/a> taiteen tekemisest\u00e4 viime kev\u00e4\u00e4n\u00e4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/michelle-zauner-is-japanese-breakfast-but-at-what-cost\">Interview Magazinessa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think of it as an archive and it really helps me creatively to think that way, because sometimes when I get really self-conscious or down on myself for what I\u2019ve made\u2014when I feel like it could have been better\u2014I try to remind myself, \u201cThis is just who you are in this moment. You did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alleviivattua","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}