{"id":2704,"date":"2017-09-07T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2017-09-07T22:06:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T04:06:55","slug":"the-good-news-the-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"The Good News &#038; The Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor has accepted the manuscript of INTO THE FIRE (after the second rewrite) and it&#8217;s now in production.\u00a0 Once the copy edits have come and gone, I&#8217;m off the contractual hook, so to speak, with the time to arrange for the medical and dental procedures I need.\u00a0\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0\u00a0 Because an eye with a cataract in it does not get better on its own, nor does a dental situation.<\/p>\n<p>DragonCon was fun but challenging, as the throat injury was still causing discomfort and some loss of voice strength, and the knee injury didn&#8217;t allow the kind of fast, steady walking that going from hotel to hotel makes much easier.\u00a0 OTOH, I made it, so there.<\/p>\n<p>Renovation on the house next door that we bought to rent has gone well, and it&#8217;s now time for the flooring crew to put in the new floors.\u00a0 Then installation of appliances, final plumber visits and electrical visits, and it&#8217;ll be about ready to go.\u00a0 In the meantime I need to have a talk with our lawyer about &#8220;being a landlord of residential property.&#8221;\u00a0 The basics; I&#8217;ve never done this before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor has accepted the manuscript of INTO THE FIRE (after the second rewrite) and it&#8217;s now in production.\u00a0 Once the copy edits have come and gone, I&#8217;m off the contractual hook, so to speak, with the time to arrange for the medical and dental procedures I need.\u00a0\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0\u00a0 Because an eye with a cataract in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,52,92,53],"tags":[82,112,31],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-editing","category-good-news","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-dragoncon","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-book-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"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=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}