{"id":276,"date":"2010-11-18T22:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T03:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2010-11-18T22:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T03:28:42","slug":"metrics-day-18-and-weve-broken-90k-on-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"(metrics) Day 18 &#8211; and we&#8217;ve broken 90k on Rites!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited! I had no idea I could write this much tonight!  There may be hope for me yet!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;ve already blown my previous NaNo totals out of the water. I&#8217;ve never gotten this far.  I&#8217;m pretty impressed!<\/p>\n<p>Starting Count: 88398<br \/>\nEnding Count:  90797<br \/>\nNet Gain:  +2399<br \/>\nCurrent NaNo count: 23823<br \/>\nCurrent Word YTD count: 23976<br \/>\nVal\u2019s Tea Fund: $1 <\/p>\n<p><b>Starting line:<\/b><br \/>\nDerek scowled at him.  \u201cThat\u2019s not an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Ending line:<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cBecause Madness is going to have to send Thom out.  If she thinks we\u2019ve left everything unguarded, then she\u2019s going to send him here, to try and outflank Cleo and Rick. That\u2019s what I\u2019d do.\u201d  Nikki looked over at her.  \u201cAnd I\u2019m hoping you can help Diana break through the spells she\u2019s laid on him.  We need him.  More than any of you can ever know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Darling:<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cIt was mine.\u201d  They all turned at the new voice, and Derek blinked.  Impossible.  The\u2026creature coming down the stairs smiled at him, if smile was the right word.  There seemed to be far too many teeth involved for it to be a true smile.  She was tall, dark-haired and dark-eyed, with pale skin, and she looked very much like an older version of Nikki.  But Power clung to her like black lace, Shadows deeper than any he\u2019d ever seen, as if her entire body were saturated with them, and regret hung about her like a shroud.  \u201cBut I\u2019m very proud of what she\u2019s done with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited! I had no idea I could write this much tonight! There may be hope for me yet! Actually, I&#8217;ve already blown my previous NaNo totals out of the water. I&#8217;ve never gotten this far. I&#8217;m pretty impressed! Starting Count: 88398 Ending Count: 90797 Net Gain: +2399 Current NaNo count: 23823 Current Word &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=276\">>>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-276","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\/276"}],"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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}