{"id":590,"date":"2010-07-01T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2010-07-01T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:20:33","slug":"a-new-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"A new decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been notably absent, but I can finally tell you a bit about one of the things that&#8217;s been taking up the word quota. My first published piece of fiction appeared today at <a href=\"https:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/archives\/020\/\">Crossed Genres<\/a>, just in time for my fortieth birthday. <\/p>\n<p>I managed to meet a ridiculous number of June deadlines, more of which you&#8217;ll be hearing about later, most notably two nonfiction and two fiction writing deadlines. Plus work, travel, houseguests, family emergencies&#8230; it&#8217;s been quite a month.<\/p>\n<p>My mother was here for a week, and we finally got the flower baskets filled. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/flowers20100701-1.jpg\" alt=\"Flower baskets\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adequate supervision is crucial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/flowers20100701-2.jpg\" alt=\"Flower baskets\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be in Albuquerque for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex-weavers.org\/seminar.htm\">Complex Weavers<\/a> very soon. Looking forward to seeing some blog readers and some old friends, and eating as much green chile as humanly possible. I do need to finish my class, but I have weeks. Right? Right.<\/p>\n<p>These are the roses I want, adorning the old Stonington Point lighthouse. Anyone know what they might be?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/lighthouse20100701.jpg\" alt=\"Lighthouse and roses\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been notably absent, but I can finally tell you a bit about one of the things that&#8217;s been taking up the word quota. My first published piece of fiction appeared today at Crossed Genres, just in time for my fortieth birthday. I managed to meet a ridiculous number of June deadlines, more of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}