{"id":1309,"date":"2020-12-20T21:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2020-12-20T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:27:04","slug":"seasons-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/20\/seasons-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Season’s greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a reason I haven’t posted lately, and I believe it’s a reason that will meet with your approval: The first draft of the manuscript is coming very<\/em> close to completion. The promise date<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> to my reviewers is January 1, and when I make a promise, I do my very best to keep my word. There is not a whole lot left for me to do before it’s a complete narrative, ready for review.<\/p>\n

Now, this first draft is kind of rough, but that’s why you do a first draft. In any event, it’s a coherent story, and as I have worked on the narrative the connections have clicked into place. When this thing is polished up and ready for press, you’ll really be happy, I think.<\/p>\n

I hate repeating content, but in the spirit of the season, I’ll refer you to this piece of seasonal reading<\/a> – which, by the way, still makes dandy Christmastime viewing.<\/p>\n

Whatever you celebrate or observe, make it a good one, and please<\/em><\/strong> make it a safe one. Don’t endanger yourself or others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a reason I haven’t posted lately, and I believe it’s a reason that will meet with your approval: The first draft of the manuscript is coming very close to completion. The promise date to my reviewers is January 1, and when I make a promise, I do my very best to keep my … Continue reading “Season’s greetings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daves-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}