{"id":450,"date":"2011-06-18T03:02:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2011-06-18T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T07:02:37","slug":"metrics-more-words-for-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"(metrics) More words for Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Count: 1715<br \/>\nEnding Count: 3517<br \/>\nNet Gain: + 1802<br \/>\nCurrent Word MTD count: 2235<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Starting line:<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cOh?\u201d Molly spared a glance down, smiling at his enthusiasm.  \u201cAnd what do you want for Christmas?\u201d  It had to be something good, giving the way his tail twitched excitedly.  His tail always gave him away.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Ending line:<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cThen we\u2019ll see,\u201d Drew said.  \u201cHe looks like the only thing he wants to be in right now is a bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Darling:<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cWhen I was younger, much younger, I spent a summer getting notes from SA.\u201d  Marge tapped the paper.  \u201cMy secret admirer was very charming, and very persistent.  It was summer, so his notes came wrapped around flower stems.\u201d  She smiled, remembering.  \u201cIt took me forever to figure out who it was.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cAnd what did you do when you did?\u201d Molly asked.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cI married him,\u201d Marge said.  \u201cAnd I have never regretted it.  Well, almost never.\u201d  She winked at Molly.  \u201cThere are times when I wonder, but never for long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nI know, I&#8217;ve been quiet lately.  I&#8217;ve been really busy.  But I&#8217;m getting back into writing, slowly, and I&#8217;m recommitting to it.  I have to.  Otherwise, I&#8217;ll go mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Count: 1715 Ending Count: 3517 Net Gain: + 1802 Current Word MTD count: 2235 Starting line: \u201cOh?\u201d Molly spared a glance down, smiling at his enthusiasm. \u201cAnd what do you want for Christmas?\u201d It had to be something good, giving the way his tail twitched excitedly. His tail always gave him away. Ending line: &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=450\">>>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":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-metrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}