{"id":10994,"date":"2008-06-30T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/30\/approbations\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:16:31","slug":"approbations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/30\/approbations\/","title":{"rendered":"Approbations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone for their kind emails, texts and phone calls about <a href=\"\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/23\/it-is-done-2\/\">Rocket Ships<\/a>. Based on the volume of notes, a lot more people might have commented, but considered the post too personal and thus stayed on the sidelines. Though their rationale is a bit curious, since this a site available to the entire Internet, I understand. Lurkers are generally the most polite of netizens. Small correction: samhilliard.com might be blocked in parts of Asia; that&#8217;s due to the Great Firewall of China rather than a design plan.<\/p>\n<p>Monday begins week two of the post-divorce life and things are going well. Work is quiet. Krav Maga is on hold for a few more days, while I nurse my rib back to one hundred percent. Officially I was back in business two weeks ago, and had resumed training. During some stick disarms on the 21st, I fell on my elbow. Unlike in May, this time the rib is merely bruised. Once I can cough without wincing, I&#8217;ll be back in class.<\/p>\n<p>Still in the running at one literary agency. I anticipate an answer shortly after July Fourth. Fiction is a very tough sell these days. Towards that end, I&#8217;m considering another project that will lead in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>On the non-fiction front, I&#8217;m in discussions with a woman who has an incredible story about escaping a bloody civil war that killed her entire family. We have tons of details to sort out, but I&#8217;m hopeful we can reach a compromise that works for everyone. It&#8217;s the sort of book that needs to be written, and I&#8217;d be honored to help translate her experiences into a compelling narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone for their kind emails, texts and phone calls about Rocket Ships. Based on the volume of notes, a lot more people might have commented, but considered the post too personal and thus stayed on the sidelines. Though their rationale is a bit curious, since this a site available to the entire Internet, [&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-10994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994","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=10994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}