{"id":1829,"date":"2017-10-11T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2017-10-11T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:12:12","slug":"writing-more-advent-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"(writing) More Advent, of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/winter-tea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1403 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/winter-tea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s getting to be that time of year again, after all. Yes, there WILL be a Carter&#8217;s Cove story this year. But I&#8217;m doing other things as well. I&#8217;ve just sent out a short story to a magazine for consideration, and I will be doing more short stories in the future. It&#8217;s an interesting exercise, and I think I need to hone those skills. First drafts will be posted to my Patreon, and then revised and sent out. And yes. I&#8217;ll be sure to announce if any of them get sold. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my way of coping with depression. I&#8217;m realizing how unhealthy I&#8217;ve been lately, despite all my efforts. I need to concentrate on me. It needs to get better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christmas will be hard. I&#8217;m totally going to hide in Carter&#8217;s Cove for a lot of it. Besides, Molly has tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting to be that time of year again, after all. Yes, there WILL be a Carter&#8217;s Cove story this year. But I&#8217;m doing other things as well. I&#8217;ve just sent out a short story to a magazine for consideration, and I will be doing more short stories in the future. It&#8217;s an interesting exercise, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1829\">>>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":[14,96,23,89,12,40,87],"tags":[61,15,67,7,91,60,77,66],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-depression","category-goals","category-patreon","category-personal","category-short-stories","category-tea","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-goals","tag-life","tag-patreon","tag-personal","tag-short-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}