{"id":1145,"date":"2011-11-30T23:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2011-11-30T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:56:59","slug":"oops-radio-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/oops-radio-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops, Radio Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1143\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Winner_180_180_white.png\" title=\"Winner_180_180_white\" width=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Winner_180_180_white.png 180w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Winner_180_180_white-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Well, I didn&#39;t MEAN to not write in here all month, but hey, it&#39;s November &#8211; at least I had a good excuse. It was budget season at work, and I&#39;ve been participating in National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)&#8230; and I successfully finished my novel! This was the tenth year I&#39;ve participated and the seventh finish. This year I wrote a straight up science fiction story, which I&#39;d never done before, and man let me tell you, it is pretty ridiculous. It needs a massive overhaul &#8211; plot threads, characters, etc. were dropped willy nilly in favor of others, there&#39;s a kidnapping and a space kraken, telepathy and a cliffhanger. With no explanation.&nbsp; It&#39;s terrible. I kind of love it. If I ever go back to it and am able to fix its many, many problems, it could actually be pretty cool!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, expect to see more posts in December. Well, you know me, always thinking I&#39;ll update and then being too busy. But budget season is over as of today (the office consumed SEVERAL bottles of champagne after work this afternoon) and I&#39;m not writing a terrible novel with space kraken so you just never know. Plus! I&#39;m finally sitting down and making some stuff from all those bead show hauls I&#39;ve managed over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving; ours was particularly delicious for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>And in four minutes it&#39;s December! Where on EARTH has this year gone?<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/oops-radio-silence\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#39;t MEAN to not write in here all month, but hey, it&#39;s November &#8211; at least I had a good excuse. It was budget season at work, and I&#39;ve been participating in National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)&#8230; and I successfully finished my novel! This was the tenth year I&#39;ve participated and the seventh &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/oops-radio-silence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oops, Radio Silence&#8221;<\/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":[3,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}