{"id":1043,"date":"2017-07-02T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2017-07-02T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:51:05","slug":"the-writing-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/02\/the-writing-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From a newsgroup post dated June 11, 2010:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Julie rearranged her work schedule this week for complicated job-related reasons; she had Friday off but will be working Sunday. That meant she was home today with nothing planned.<\/p>\n<p>So we went out for lunch at a tiny Thai place in Silver Spring, did a little shopping, and generally took it easy.<\/p>\n<p>And at one point I was lying down, apparently doing nothing at all, and she remarked that I was obviously waiting for her.<\/p>\n<p>I confessed that no, I was plotting.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I was plotting <i>Dumery of the Dragon<\/i>, an Ethshar novel I may well never actually write.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, when she&#8217;d been talking to me about stuff at her office, I was plotting <i>A Feather from Her Wing<\/i>, another unlikely Ethshar novel.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I&#8217;m so busy devising other people&#8217;s lives I forget to live my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a newsgroup post dated June 11, 2010: Julie rearranged her work schedule this week for complicated job-related reasons; she had Friday off but will be working Sunday. That meant she was home today with nothing planned. So we went out for lunch at a tiny Thai place in Silver Spring, did a little shopping,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/02\/the-writing-life-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}