{"id":68,"date":"2009-08-16T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/?p=68"},"modified":"2009-08-16T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:15:48","slug":"so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/so-close\/","title":{"rendered":"So Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, 2pm in the afternoon and I have spent almost all of my day answering emails and checking up with friends on Facebook. What should I be doing instead? I am <em>this<\/em> close (imagine thumb and first finger an inch apart) from finishing the rough draft of my cowboy story. I am at the climax, so near the end, and\u00a0I can&#8217;t get my mind to focus.<\/p>\n<p>So I am issuing a challenge to myself,\u00a0\u00a0see I am doing it publically to add that sense of urgency. I will lock myself away and not come out until it is finished. Since I have to work tomorrow, this means it will have to be done today. Completing two rough drafts was my summer goal, and with only a few weeks until the next writer&#8217;s meeting, I want to say &#8220;Yes, I did it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep you posted on the outcome.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, 2pm in the afternoon and I have spent almost all of my day answering emails and checking up with friends on Facebook. What should I be doing instead? I am this close (imagine thumb and first finger an inch apart) from finishing the rough draft of my cowboy story. I am at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39eCR-16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}