{"id":2124,"date":"2016-11-30T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2016-11-30T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:45:00","slug":"30-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/30\/30-4\/","title":{"rendered":"30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Recap, reaction.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, sixth year complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not terribly satisfied with what I\u2019ve written, but I did it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It really has gotten the writing moving again. This summer\u2019s month didn\u2019t do that as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same goes for work, which is sorta kicking my ass at the moment. But at least I\u2019m getting paid sort of okay again. It would be nice to have some paid leave, other benefits, but&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(And a bitchy quip deleted.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did have most of my prompts ready before the month started. I had to rearrange several, which I\u2019ll touch on later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what went well\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Getting it done<\/li><li>Post strategy (first the blog, which sucks, then Prosebox)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What didn\u2019t go so well&#8230;.<br>Getting the prompts on the right daysSpelling (excusable by the mode of writing a good portion in a text terminal, and I forget to run ispell)Some of the answers to prompts where I had a lot more to say when I came up with the prompt, then forgot when it came time to write<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, it\u2019s been an incredibly eventful month. I\u2019ve seen some things I never thought I\u2019d say. Most of them I never wanted to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(When you see someone changing his profile pic on FB to the Anarcho-syndicalism flag, and more quotes from Noam \u201cDistortions at Fourth Hand\u201d Chomsky, you know it\u2019s been rough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also grew just a mustache for the first time since I was a teenager. Ostensibly, it was for November. The reality is that I still can\u2019t grow a beard. I thought that this close to forty, I\u2019d be able to pull that off by now. But bald spots, sideburns that don\u2019t connect. Even just the mustache, I have every natural hair color sprouting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November is finished, though, and I hope I get some time to relax next month. I need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recap, reaction. Well, sixth year complete. I\u2019m not terribly satisfied with what I\u2019ve written, but I did it again. It really has gotten the writing moving again. This summer\u2019s month didn\u2019t do that as much. Same goes for work, which is sorta kicking my ass at the moment. But at least I\u2019m getting paid sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}