{"id":2923,"date":"2023-02-18T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T04:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2023-02-18T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T04:11:04","slug":"deeds-of-youth-off-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2923","title":{"rendered":"Deeds of Youth: Off to NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seven stories of <strong>Deeds of Youth <\/strong>have been combed over and checked again and again; the two that were serialized here have had a few minor changes made.\u00a0 One has never been &#8220;out in public&#8221; yet.\u00a0 Those three (two seen in the blog, one never) will get a professional polish from a copy editor; the other four, suppposedly (I HOPE!) clean enough copies are as they appeared in the anthologies.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping Agent agrees to use the same basic cover design with the new title and the background in green &#8220;antique-leather) behind the gold lettering.\u00a0 I do not yet have a release date, but I expect to have the date within a few weeks (that&#8217;s how it happened last time) and it should be out this year for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Back to working on Horngard I.<\/p>\n<p>Between the ice storm, the aftermath of the ice storm (heavy rain onto the melted ice) , some power outages and a total failure of plumbing, the past few weeks have been hectic and requiered a lot of &#8220;adjustment&#8221; to daily life.\u00a0\u00a0 Having both toilets nonfunctional for a week + days, and the septic tank having to be pumped, and such&#8230;not the most fun in the world.\u00a0 But we&#8217;re lucky that it&#8217;s now back together and functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven stories of Deeds of Youth have been combed over and checked again and again; the two that were serialized here have had a few minor changes made.\u00a0 One has never been &#8220;out in public&#8221; yet.\u00a0 Those three (two seen in the blog, one never) will get a professional polish from a copy editor; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,130,53,127,5],"tags":[112,20,107],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-deeds-of-youth","category-life-beyond-writing","category-progress","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"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=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}