{"id":29205,"date":"2015-05-31T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29205"},"modified":"2015-05-30T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T10:22:22","slug":"and-so-it-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/31\/and-so-it-began\/","title":{"rendered":"And So It Began&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, five years ago today, on May 31 1020, I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/05\/31\/and-so-it-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">my very first post<\/a> here <em>&#8220;&#8230;on Anything, Really.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since then I have published a grand total of 1881 posts and I think I have largely kept to the undertaking I made that day to post:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;about both novels and poetry, what\u2019s coming up and what\u2019s happening\u2014and I hope there\u2019ll be a few online interviews showing up here! &#8230; I\u2019m looking forward to having conversations around what I\u2019m reading now, the books I\u2019ve loved reading in the past as well as creative influences from other areas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the past 5 years I&#8217;ve also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>published another two books, <strong><em>The Heir Of Night<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Gathering Of The Lost;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>had some fun with the Gemmell Awards, winning the Morningstar in 2012 and being shortlisted for the Legend in 2013;<\/li>\n<li>participated in two Christchurch Writers&#8217; Festivals;<\/li>\n<li>been to the 2010 Worldcon in Melbourne and several NZ Natcons;<\/li>\n<li>hosted lots of other authors and poets here in 1 form or another, e.g through interviews, guest posts, and the Tuesday Poem;<\/li>\n<li>and hosted Rebecca Fisher&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/big-worlds-on-small-screens-with-rebecca-fisher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Worlds on Small Screens<\/a> column;<\/li>\n<li>not to mention having lived through the 18 months of Christchurch earthquakes and their aftermath, which is still ongoing (am hoping to find out whether the house is a repair or a rebuild in the next few weeks);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On May 31 2010 I also mentioned <em>&#8220;having a little cat buddy who likes to have his share in the conversations.&#8221;<\/em> Sadly, I also got to bid farewell to my bud, also here on the blog, in October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy blogging and also feeling like I&#8217;m getting to know (as much as one can, through this form of interaction) those of you who comment. And I certainly appreciate all those who follow the blog, because I know a lot of you are dropping by\u00a0 and reading very regularly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure what the future brings, but for now I&#8217;m raising my virtual glass to you all and five years on <em>&#8220;&#8230;Anything, Really&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; but mainly on books, writing, and their many permutations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, five years ago today, on May 31 1020, I posted my very first post here &#8220;&#8230;on Anything, Really.&#8221; Since then I have published a grand total of 1881 posts and I think I have largely kept to the undertaking I made that day to post: &#8220;&#8230;about both novels and poetry, what\u2019s coming up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205","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=29205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29209,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205\/revisions\/29209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}