{"id":273,"date":"2023-10-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=273&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=273"},"modified":"2023-10-17T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T00:30:37","slug":"it-has-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/it-has-been-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"It Has Been A While&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t posted in while.&nbsp; Since July actually.&nbsp; It has been rather busy around here.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I may have mentioned before that I have 4 kids.&nbsp; You may already know Carolyn, since she posts on here from time to time.&nbsp; I also have 2 kids in high school that are in the marching band.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Marching band starts up in July, and goes \u2018til November.&nbsp; I am not in marching band, but I do help out with equipment.&nbsp; That means that I spend one or two days a week moving band equipment around and the other days of the week recovering.&nbsp; (I am not big on exercise, and equipment crew is a lot of work.)<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t really a good reason to not have posted for so long.&nbsp; It isn\u2019t like I haven\u2019t read a ton of sci-fi books, played x-box games (like Power Washer) for hours, and generally goofed off.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I could have traded some of that time for writing time.&nbsp; I just never know where to start, where to continue, how to tell a good story.&nbsp; It would probably be easier if I made the attempt though.<\/p>\n<p>So, Carolyn and I have discussed participating in NaNoWriMo.&nbsp; Perhaps this will be our year to succeed.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Any hints on how to keep a brilliant 10 year old excited about writing for a whole month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t posted in while.&nbsp; Since July actually.&nbsp; It has been rather busy around here.&nbsp; I may have mentioned before that I have 4 kids.&nbsp; You may already know Carolyn, since she posts on here from time to time.&nbsp; I also have 2 kids in high school that are in the marching band.&nbsp; Marching band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,64],"tags":[104,36,103],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-commentary","tag-band","tag-carolyn","tag-nanowrimo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}