{"id":1741,"date":"2010-09-14T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:37:49","slug":"state-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"State of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I&#8217;m looking forward to when that baby gets born so I can finally catch up on some sleep!<\/p>\n<p>No, wait.<\/p>\n<p>Still in the depths of a sustained busy like there has not been since I cleverly arranged to finish my Masters thesis in the weeks leading up to my wedding. Achieved the rare trifecta of working Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Unsurprise: this has severely hindered progress on <em>Day One<\/em> in the novel vs. baby race. But I am not downhearted. When I get through these weeks I might be able to put some proper time in and make up the deficit. It&#8217;s about how much I want it done, innit?<\/p>\n<p>Timely link: <a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2010\/09\/13\/heres-how-to-be-a-writer\/\">Chuck Wendig on how to be a writer<\/a>. (Thanks to the people who took a look at the opening pages of <em>D1<\/em>, by the way. Comments v. helpful.)<\/p>\n<p>Right. Back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I&#8217;m looking forward to when that baby gets born so I can finally catch up on some sleep! No, wait. Still in the depths of a sustained busy like there has not been since I cleverly arranged to finish my Masters thesis in the weeks leading up to my wedding. Achieved the rare trifecta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of Play<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[80,48,181],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-ish","category-writing","tag-busy","tag-day-one","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-s5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}