{"id":24881,"date":"2014-04-02T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24881"},"modified":"2014-04-02T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T21:57:06","slug":"o-frabjous-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/04\/02\/o-frabjous-day\/","title":{"rendered":"O Frabjous Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24890\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/04\/02\/o-frabjous-day\/rosie-the-riveter-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24890\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24890\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24890\" title=\"Rosie the Riveter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Rosie-the-Riveter1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Rosie-the-Riveter1.jpeg 136w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Rosie-the-Riveter1-125x150.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosie the Riveter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yes, dear friends, the deed is done &#8212; some Rosie the Riveter-style writing muscle has been flexed and the vorpal pen has gone snicker-snack, inscribing those divine words &#8220;the end&#8221; to the <strong><em>Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/strong> manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>And in achieving that end, I did not have to go quite to my 1 April stretch goal&#8212;as discussed on January 20 in the post, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/the-tao-of-writing-the-book-that-can-be-spoken-of-is-not-the-book-aka-a-daughter-of-blood-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Tao Of Writing: &#8216;The Book That Can be Spoken Of Is Not The Book.'&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 I typed those famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) final words at 12.35 am on March 31, NZ time. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And what did I feel? Joy, dear friends, pure and simple &#8212; and just a stardust sprinkle of that old writing magic, despite the hour, because the end point of the story is ex-act-ly where and as I always envisaged &#8216;from the beginning.&#8217; Isn&#8217;t that just the most amazingly wonderful thing?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, needless to say I&#8217;m hoping for some battery recharge time now, because I suspect the muse would benefit from a little r&#8217;n&#8217;r as well&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, dear friends, the deed is done &#8212; some Rosie the Riveter-style writing muscle has been flexed and the vorpal pen has gone snicker-snack, inscribing those divine words &#8220;the end&#8221; to the Daughter Of Blood manuscript. And in achieving that end, I did not have to go quite to my 1 April stretch goal&#8212;as discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24881"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24900,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24881\/revisions\/24900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}