{"id":661,"date":"2004-03-12T16:52:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=661"},"modified":"2004-03-12T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T16:52:31","slug":"finishing-season-continues-in-a-slightly-different-vein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/661","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Season continues, in a slightly different vein."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a furious week-and-change of work, I&#8217;m taking a bit of a breather.  Finishing Season will resume next week.  In the meantime, I&#8217;ve got a couple <i>other<\/i> little things I want to tinker with.  Some thoughts about random things, like fashion and springtime and weblogs and so on, which I want to write about.  To be honest, I&#8217;m getting tired of staring at this screen all the time.  After a couple hours, a man wants to stand up and yell, <i>There&#8217;s more to life than this!<\/i>  And, of course, there is.<br \/>\nMy friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheretheressmoke.net\">Kevin<\/a> (who is, unlike me, currently enjoying himself immensely at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a>, darn him) pointed out that I should be focusing on getting my writing out there.  And, of course, he&#8217;s right.<br \/>\n(Lots of &#8220;of course&#8221;s in this post, aren&#8217;t there?)<br \/>\nSo what will I write about?  My more recent short stories have been flitting in and out of focus, so I&#8217;m going to write other things.  Like reviews.  And essays.  And off-the-top-of-my-head stuff.  And, with a little luck, I will improve both my portfolio and my life in the process.<br \/>\nStay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a furious week-and-change of work, I&#8217;m taking a bit of a breather. Finishing Season will resume next week. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve got a couple other little things I want to tinker with. Some thoughts about random things, like fashion and springtime and weblogs and so on, which I want to write about. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-aF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}