{"id":1922,"date":"2018-05-20T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2018-05-20T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T17:50:14","slug":"writing-of-shoes-and-ships-and-sealing-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"(writing) Of shoes and ships and sealing wax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/business-card-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1867\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/business-card-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/business-card-photo.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/business-card-photo-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/business-card-photo-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/business-card-photo-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/business-card-photo-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on a poetry kick lately. It&#8217;s very odd, since I never considered myself a poet, but there it is &#8211; the words are coming, and I&#8217;m not going to shut off any of the creative flow that the universe chooses to gift me with. I&#8217;m getting more in touch with my spiritual side as well, and I think the poetry is helping with that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also prepping for Balticon, since I&#8217;ve got a bunch of panels on writing, and I want to have a handout for the panels, with some of my tried-and-true tricks for novel-writing and some great websites that I use. Anyone have a good website for writing they like? Pimp it in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a poetry kick lately. It&#8217;s very odd, since I never considered myself a poet, but there it is &#8211; the words are coming, and I&#8217;m not going to shut off any of the creative flow that the universe chooses to gift me with. I&#8217;m getting more in touch with my spiritual side &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1922\">>>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":[21,12,22],"tags":[60,66],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-con-schedule","category-personal","category-writing","tag-personal","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"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=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}