{"id":27546,"date":"2014-12-20T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27546"},"modified":"2014-12-19T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T09:15:03","slug":"after-the-book-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/20\/after-the-book-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"After The Book Is Done&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the book is done, the author:<\/p>\n<p><em>Spring cleans the house<\/em>, disturbing the resident spider population and repaying the arrears of long months when mundanities such as housecleaning have been far more miss than hit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Reclaims the wilderness aka known as the garden<\/em>&#8212;because although gardens may be patient they are also occupied by species such as impatiens(the name speaks for itself) and a whole legion of stealth weeds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Cautiously circumnavigates the TBR table<\/em>, wondering of she dare begin reading, since extracting even one book may cause the whole leaning pile to topple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hunts out her address book<\/em> and begins the long process of contacting friends who may well have forgotten who she is altogether&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dawdles in front of travel shop windows<\/em> and daydreams of sunlit beaches, crystal-clear seas, and minions bearing mimosas*<\/p>\n<p><em>Tries<\/em> not to even THINK about the next book!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>* obligatory Buffy allusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the book is done, the author: Spring cleans the house, disturbing the resident spider population and repaying the arrears of long months when mundanities such as housecleaning have been far more miss than hit&#8230; Reclaims the wilderness aka known as the garden&#8212;because although gardens may be patient they are also occupied by species such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27546","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=27546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27572,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27546\/revisions\/27572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}