{"id":10552,"date":"2005-11-09T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/09\/the-eight\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T15:36:46","slug":"the-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/09\/the-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not bugging The Eight for progress reports is hard. The kid on Christmas morning in me wants to blast a broadcast email message, a temptation thus far resisted. Besides it&#8217;s actually the Seven right now, as one manuscript is still in the mail. Must&#8230;resist..urge to check&#8230;package tracking.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another lesson in letting go of outcome. That&#8217;s been a major problem for me throughout the writing process. I took the story as far as possible with minimal outside input and now is the time to allow other voices some sway. While I could pull a J.D. Salinger and invest another 9 years writing, that sort of gestation period is unacceptable. I don&#8217;t write classics; I write entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the fun of entries like these is that I&#8217;ve no clearer idea how the story will end than anyone stumbling across them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not bugging The Eight for progress reports is hard. The kid on Christmas morning in me wants to blast a broadcast email message, a temptation thus far resisted. Besides it&#8217;s actually the Seven right now, as one manuscript is still in the mail. Must&#8230;resist..urge to check&#8230;package tracking. Yet another lesson in letting go of outcome. [&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-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","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=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}