{"id":2226,"date":"2014-05-01T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2014-05-01T21:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:00:32","slug":"arrival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orbit UK edition of <em>Crown of Renewal<\/em> arrived in a box on my front porch this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great gloating ensued.\u00a0\u00a0 If I ever get over the thrill of opening a box and finding !my books! inside, I should quit writing&#8230;new books deserve that excitement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Husband grabbed one and opened it.\u00a0 I grabbed one and opened it.\u00a0\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t read beyond the first few pages (yes, the story is still there and has not turned into someone else&#8217;s story, perhaps about the life of a stockbroker who is dissatisfied with his teenage son and his manager) because I had Other Stuff to do.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The point is that actual books on actual paper do exist now&#8230;they&#8217;ve been printed and bound, and those of you who are getting the UK paper edition can be reassured that the books exist and will show up in bookstores (I hope) and your doorstep (and your e-readers)\u00a0 in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the US edition also exists, or will be back from the bindery soon, but I haven&#8217;t seen it yet.\u00a0 Held it.\u00a0 Sniffed it.\u00a0 Fondled it.\u00a0 And rejoiced over it.\u00a0 This one I have.\u00a0\u00a0 And so it&#8217;s been held, sniffed, fondled, opened, and (briefly) read.\u00a0 This makes up for a week of less progress on various things than I had hoped for and worked toward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orbit UK edition of Crown of Renewal arrived in a box on my front porch this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great gloating ensued.\u00a0\u00a0 If I ever get over the thrill of opening a box and finding !my books! inside, I should quit writing&#8230;new books deserve that excitement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Husband grabbed one and opened it.\u00a0 I grabbed one and [&hellip;]<\/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":[31,107],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226"}],"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=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}