{"id":3960,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/a-quick-thought-as-2010-winds-down\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:45:25","slug":"a-quick-thought-as-2010-winds-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"A quick thought as 2010 winds down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2010 was a lot of things for me, on a personal level. Many of them difficult, many of them bad. But 2010 was also the year I published my first wholly original (by which I mean, non-tie-in) novel. It&#8217;s a goal that I&#8217;ve had for well over a decade, a goal that a <em>fraction<\/em> of the people who attempt actually manage to accomplish. Whatever else does or does not happen with my career, I <em>did it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I think, it&#8217;s important to take a moment to remember that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ETA:<\/strong> Lest I be misunderstood, I want to clarify that the above should <em>in no way<\/em> be taken as a slam against tie-in novels. I appreciate every tie-in opportunity I&#8217;ve had so far, and I look forward to doing more of them. I just want to do them <em>alongside<\/em> my own stuff.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 was a lot of things for me, on a personal level. Many of them difficult, many of them bad. But 2010 was also the year I published my first wholly original (by which I mean, non-tie-in) novel. It&#8217;s a goal that I&#8217;ve had for well over a decade, a goal that a fraction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}