{"id":10178,"date":"2004-05-26T17:50:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T17:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10178"},"modified":"2004-05-26T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T17:50:35","slug":"the-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/26\/the-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog really straddles  two categories, Writing and the Wife, but it&#8217;s more about the former than the latter.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m knee deep in the sixth draft of the Ridge Runner and last night the wife asked to read the first 20 pages.   Which is odd, because she&#8217;s been supportive throughout this process but typically very hands off.  When I finish something, I&#8217;ll set aside a a draft for her to read when she has a chance.  Afterwards she&#8217;ll give me some comments.  <\/p>\n<p>Last night when she read the 20 pages what did she say?<\/p>\n<p>The Wife: You got 50 pages like this?<br \/>\nsam: Yes.<br \/>\nThe Wife:  Then send it out.<br \/>\nsam:  Really?<br \/>\nThe Wife:  This time you&#8217;re getting an agent.<\/p>\n<p>There you go.  For the first time in 2 years of trying, the Wife digs something I wrote.  Hot dog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog really straddles two categories, Writing and the Wife, but it&#8217;s more about the former than the latter. So, I&#8217;m knee deep in the sixth draft of the Ridge Runner and last night the wife asked to read the first 20 pages. Which is odd, because she&#8217;s been supportive throughout this process but typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}