{"id":935,"date":"2017-03-24T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2017-03-24T17:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:36:41","slug":"what-was-i-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/what-was-i-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was I Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2005:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to sort out some files in my &#8220;Works in Progress&#8221; folder &#8212; classifying them as novels, essays, short fiction, or whatever &#8212; and I&#8217;m finding stuff where I have <i>no idea at all<\/i> how I was planning to complete some of these things.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I wrote three stanzas of&#8230; um&#8230; something; I really don&#8217;t know what it was going to be.  And they&#8217;re stanzas 1, 3, and 4; 2 is missing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I have:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tWarlock Tea<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tby Lawrence Watt-Evans<\/p>\n<p>\tMargaret&#8217;s mother was rushing about<br \/>\n\tGetting coats and preparing them both to go out<br \/>\n\t&#8220;It won&#8217;t take too long,&#8221; she said, &#8220;so you&#8217;ll see,<br \/>\n\tAnd when we come back we can have warlock tea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[missing verse]<\/p>\n<p>\tMister Bear, sitting up high on the shelf,<br \/>\n\tMuttered uncomfortably to himself,<br \/>\n\t&#8220;I wonder just what that could mean,&#8221; muttered he,<br \/>\n\t&#8220;To say that they both can have this warlock tea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\tThe rocking horse down by the bureau replied,<br \/>\n\t&#8220;I&#8217;ve been everywhere, traveled far, traveled wide.<br \/>\n\t&#8220;A warlock, you know, is a magical man,<br \/>\n\t&#8220;Working much the same spells that the old witches can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What on Earth was that going to be about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2005: I&#8217;ve been trying to sort out some files in my &#8220;Works in Progress&#8221; folder &#8212; classifying them as novels, essays, short fiction, or whatever &#8212; and I&#8217;m finding stuff where I have no idea at all how I was planning to complete some of these things. For example, I wrote three stanzas&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/what-was-i-thinking\/\">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-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}