{"id":1049,"date":"2011-02-08T22:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T04:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2011-02-08T22:27:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T04:27:36","slug":"fifty-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Fifty WHAT???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty thousand words on the new book, that&#8217;s what.\u00a0\u00a0 The wordage rolled over this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Arvid continues to be the &#8220;If it&#8217;s\u00a0 stuck, he&#8217;ll hook a chain on and drag the story out of the mudhole&#8221; character.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, this is now three books ahead of where you can actually read, so everything is a spoiler.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You can know that Arvid stuck the end of a quarterstaff in someone&#8217;s gut, but you can&#8217;t (yet) know who, why, or where.<\/p>\n<p>As my mother used to say in certain circumstances, &#8220;This hurts me more than it does you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still.\u00a0 50,000 words.\u00a0\u00a0 Once books reach that length, they have enough mass to keep rolling on down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty thousand words on the new book, that&#8217;s what.\u00a0\u00a0 The wordage rolled over this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,107],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}