{"id":703,"date":"2007-11-17T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2007-11-17T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T22:10:00","slug":"the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"The Saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you remember, <a href=\"http:\/\/bastart.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/more-like-ten.html\">yesterday <\/a>I said it was unlikely I would hit the nanowrimo 50,000 word goal.  This remains the case.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as if response, today I received nano&#8217;s weekly pep-talk email.  This latest iteration was penned by <a href=\"http:\/\/neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>.  There are notably few people out there of whom I would describe myself as a &#8220;fan&#8221;, and spooky Neil hovers near the top of that list.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Neil.  Why couldn&#8217;t you just let me be?  Let me accept and even enjoy missing the goal?  Why must you infuse me with pep?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you remember, yesterday I said it was unlikely I would hit the nanowrimo 50,000 word goal. This remains the case. Yet, as if response, today I received nano&#8217;s weekly pep-talk email. This latest iteration was penned by Neil Gaiman. There are notably few people out there of whom I would describe myself as a [&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-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}