{"id":199,"date":"2006-07-02T23:16:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/2006\/07\/02\/a-new-energy\/"},"modified":"2006-07-02T23:16:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T07:16:05","slug":"a-new-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/a-new-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"A new energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now been almost 8 moths since I first told you all that I wanted to write a book.  I must sadly confess that I&#8217;m not much further ahead on the project then I was when I last posted in this category on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>I had a really good run for about a week there in September, then I just couldn&#8217;t think of where to take the story.  For the following several months I tinkered and edited, changed some passages, and worked in some details.  But really I wasn&#8217;t making any real headway.  I was stuck to the same 10 or 15 pages as it just changed forms.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve suddenly had a resurgence of interest in writing.  Not becoming an &#8220;author&#8221; mind you, but just writing something interesting.  Something that other people would be interested in reading.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem I&#8217;m having tonight is that as I re-read my story so far it just feels like a dead end.  It&#8217;s a great start, but I just can&#8217;t think of anywhere to take it.<\/p>\n<p>In short.. this little blog entry doesn&#8217;t say much.  I&#8217;d like to say I&#8217;ve given myself a deadline for finishing a manuscript, but I know I would just let the deadline slip by.  So I&#8217;ll just say that I&#8217;m going to give it some more energy in the coming days and see where I get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now been almost 8 moths since I first told you all that I wanted to write a book. I must sadly confess that I&#8217;m not much further ahead on the project then I was when I last posted in this category on my blog. I had a really good run for about a week &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/a-new-energy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new energy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}