{"id":10545,"date":"2005-10-31T00:38:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T04:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/31\/standing-in-the-shadows\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T00:41:36","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T04:41:36","slug":"standing-in-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/31\/standing-in-the-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing in the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly done with the draft, but it needs one more day of work ( plus the cliffhanger ending). Most of the writing time today went towards editing the whirlwind that was the last 35 pages. For being written so fast, I expected severe carnage. Instead, I uncovered only minor glitches like awkward phrasings and dropped words. A miracle really, because quality control and volume are inversely related. The faster something is written, the more glitches riddle the passages. Years from now I hope that&#8217;s a memory, and I&#8217;ll write at a faster clip.<\/p>\n<p>And no, the count meter is not broken. Since the new material offset cuts, the net effect is a  zero gain in word count today.<\/p>\n<p>Tanqueray is calling my name. I just can&#8217;t answer yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly done with the draft, but it needs one more day of work ( plus the cliffhanger ending). Most of the writing time today went towards editing the whirlwind that was the last 35 pages. For being written so fast, I expected severe carnage. Instead, I uncovered only minor glitches like awkward phrasings and dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545","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=10545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}