{"id":241,"date":"2010-11-04T04:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2010-11-04T04:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T08:42:42","slug":"metrics-a-long-days-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"(metrics) A long day&#8217;s night&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of words today.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Count: 68515<br \/>\nEnding Count: 71757<br \/>\nNet Gain:  +3242<br \/>\nCurrent NaNo count: 4783<br \/>\nCurrent Word YTD count: 5889<br \/>\nVal&#8217;s Tea Fund: $4<\/p>\n<p><b>Starting line:<\/b><br \/>\nThere was no arguing with that voice.  Diana turned and carefully pulled herself up onto Malattia\u2019s back, settling into the ornate saddle and picking up the reins.  \u201cDo you know how to get to Nikki\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Ending line:<\/b><br \/>\nAnd what she was going to do with Alex.  Once again, he\u2019d circumnavigated her carefully arranged plans and thrown, whether he meant to or not, another monkey wrench into the gears.  Alex Masterson was, she decided, far too independent for his own good.<\/p>\n<p><b>Darling:<\/b><br \/>\nA long tentacle shot out from a creature she\u2019d overlooked, one that she might have stabbed already; Nikki couldn\u2019t tell, but it obviously wasn\u2019t dead.  The tentacle, tipped with a wicked claw, slammed into her armpit, nearly knocking her off Kore in a shower of blood.  Nikki shrieked in pain, and in a fury aimed a bolt of Shadow energy at the creature.  It exploded as her spell and Rick\u2019s shotgun blast hit it at the same time, and Cleo folded over her saddlehorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of words today. Starting Count: 68515 Ending Count: 71757 Net Gain: +3242 Current NaNo count: 4783 Current Word YTD count: 5889 Val&#8217;s Tea Fund: $4 Starting line: There was no arguing with that voice. Diana turned and carefully pulled herself up onto Malattia\u2019s back, settling into the ornate saddle and picking up the reins. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=241\">>>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":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics","category-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}