{"id":10632,"date":"2006-03-16T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T23:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/on-fire\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T18:29:03","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T23:29:03","slug":"on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"On fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m savoring the pre Team Eagle Eye edit process. There&#8217;s something rewarding about smoothing the rough edges off a manuscript that&#8217;s like polishing a large tarnished collection of silver. The work can be tedious, but as the pieces begin glittering, the monotony is forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the manuscript like this also reminds me that I find the story interesting. After focusing exclusively on a single project since October 2004, time has a way of numbing out some of the old youthful enthusiasm. At the onset, I thought the idea could work as a novel. Two and half years later, after reading through it, I still think it works as a novel. <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, other people get a chance to concur. Or dissent. Either works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m savoring the pre Team Eagle Eye edit process. There&#8217;s something rewarding about smoothing the rough edges off a manuscript that&#8217;s like polishing a large tarnished collection of silver. The work can be tedious, but as the pieces begin glittering, the monotony is forgotten. Working with the manuscript like this also reminds me that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632","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=10632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}