{"id":317164,"date":"2010-02-13T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T03:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2010-02-13T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T03:35:02","slug":"drafted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/317164","title":{"rendered":"Drafted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dunechaser\/518848905\/in\/set-72157600279421826\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/518848905_33f0dc6470.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Drafted\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even first drafts have multiple draft, but tonight I completed the first draft of the first draft of the pending novel of colonial history, football, and fungal horror entitled WAKE, ME. It&#8217;s harder work (and immensely rewarding) to revise and edit and consult critique partners and editors and other thoughtful readers and see a manuscript through to a book, but the purest pleasure is just the satisfaction of saying, &#8220;There &#8212; it&#8217;s done. I wrote a novel.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m doing that right now, and watching speed skating. It&#8217;s interesting because although you know these guys are going super fast, it&#8217;s so quiet and peaceful looking, like they are just gliding along for the joy of it and don&#8217;t care when they get there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even first drafts have multiple draft, but tonight I completed the first draft of the first draft of the pending novel of colonial history, football, and fungal horror entitled WAKE, ME. It&#8217;s harder work (and immensely rewarding) to revise and edit and consult critique partners and editors and other thoughtful readers and see a manuscript [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}