{"id":21,"date":"2010-11-07T17:19:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-03-01T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:26:18","slug":"november-7-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"November 7, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One week in now and I am still humming along. It is so liberating being able to create a world from your imagination. My professor has quoted Mark Twain to us as saying, \u201cAll first drafts are crap.\u201d I believe him. There have been several nights where I catch myself thinking, \u201cThis is absolute crap.\u201d When that happens I simply keep writing until I get back on track. Making things pretty is for the revision process.<\/p>\n<p>My novel is picking up some heady themes: loss, shame, anger, hatred, friendship, loyalty, honor, courage, and duty. I find my characters bantering like old friends. This is my kind of story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week in now and I am still humming along. It is so liberating being able to create a world from your imagination. My professor has quoted Mark Twain to us as saying, \u201cAll first drafts are crap.\u201d I believe him. There have been several nights where I catch myself thinking, \u201cThis is absolute crap.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkenway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}