{"id":612,"date":"2010-02-17T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:57:15","slug":"sadness-and-an-opportunity-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Sadness and An Opportunity for You"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband’s niece lost her husband this morning to a sudden, very severe infection that started last week.\u00a0\u00a0 This isn’t a part of the family I know well, but I’m very sorry for her and their two children.<\/p>\n

Between Ash Wednesday meditations and this,\u00a0 no writing has been added to the new book, though I dealt with a lot of writing business today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of the bits of writing business was getting set up for an online chat, that will take place with John Hemry<\/a> ( author of the Lost Fleet books as Jack Campbell and JAG in Space books as John Hemry) and fans, on March 16 between 4 and 5 pm Eastern Time.\u00a0\u00a0 Our editor suggested that we talk about researching for writing, and we’ve exchanged ideas and questions today.<\/p>\n

The fan portal for the chat will be through Suvudu.com<\/a>, and if you wander past there, you’ll see that online chats are fairly common.\u00a0\u00a0 John and I have known each other for years–it should be a lot of fun for all.\u00a0\u00a0 I think it’s great that modern communications give us the chance to do things like this.\u00a0 I hope you’ll come see what happens.\u00a0\u00a0 (And yes, there will be reminders…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband’s niece lost her husband this morning to a sudden, very severe infection that started last week.\u00a0\u00a0 This isn’t a part of the family I know well, but I’m very sorry for her and their two children. Between Ash Wednesday meditations and this,\u00a0 no writing has been added to the new book, though I […]<\/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":[112,68,107],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-online-chat","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}