{"id":548,"date":"2010-01-07T11:33:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:33:24","slug":"how-did-it-get-to-be-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"How Did It Get to Be Thursday?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, I&#8217;m neglecting this blog.\u00a0 Yes, I posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/\">80 Acres site<\/a> in between posts to this one.\u00a0\u00a0 (I found cochineal scale all over one prickly pear&#8211;if you&#8217;ve ever wondered where the gorgeous natural red dye that once made the &#8220;redcoats&#8221; of the British Army came from, take a look.)\u00a0\u00a0 So Monday was basically a rest day, except for a little work on music&#8211;which &#8220;rest&#8221; involved not so much rest as catching up on non-book work.\u00a0 Tuesday was voice lesson and choir rehearsal, plus a long chat with our lawyer about guardianship changes we might make for our son. \u00a0\u00a0 Wednesday was music work (the rehearsal Tuesday having shown up problems) for the evening&#8217;s Epiphany service, plus (in between) more non-book work.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more-->And that&#8217;s how it got to be Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0 in the back of my mind, the story keeps rolling and churning and throwing up new stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 Since Editor won&#8217;t get to Book II right away, I have to tread warily in the opening parts of Book III&#8230;if she wants cut something that later turns up in Book III&#8230;adjustments have to be made.<\/p>\n<p>Had another talk with the retiring MSgt about whether I can use one of her enthusiasms for &#8220;her&#8221; character in the book, and she said yes.\u00a0\u00a0 So we have that Halveric sergeant a jewelry collector of sorts&#8211;spent her spare pay on stuff from Aarenis&#8211;and this becomes plot-significant.\u00a0\u00a0 How, I&#8217;m not prepared to say at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Am also considering how to back-fit her into Book II,\u00a0 just as a mention.\u00a0\u00a0 Halveric troops appear briefly&#8230;might be possible to have her mentioned, though she says she plans to stay alive until Book III is out.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the gap in posting here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, I&#8217;m neglecting this blog.\u00a0 Yes, I posted to the 80 Acres site in between posts to this one.\u00a0\u00a0 (I found cochineal scale all over one prickly pear&#8211;if you&#8217;ve ever wondered where the gorgeous natural red dye that once made the &#8220;redcoats&#8221; of the British Army came from, take a look.)\u00a0\u00a0 So Monday was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}