{"id":1060,"date":"2010-03-11T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2010-03-11T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:03:49","slug":"happy-dancing-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/happy-dancing-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Dancing, at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/data68.sevenload.com\/slcom\/ck\/fe\/jkkegg\/czctkjfktlc.jpg~\/Sexy-guy.jpg?resize=273%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"356\" \/>I sent off the final part of RARER THAN RUBIES to the beta readers the other n ight, and I am so relieved. I can&#8217;t wait for feedback to help me focus on what really needs work, rather than going over and over it myself hoping I&#8217;m catching everything.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I could still use a few more betas<\/strong>, esp guys, so PLEASE let me know if you can read a novel-length piece and provide feedback within a week.<br \/>\nSo, now that this albatross is nearly off my neck, I feel like a human again and can start getting back to a more normal schedule of being online, writing and doing some promo work.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting another poll shortly&#8230; it&#8217;s been way too long!<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m starting to research\/outline my next project which is going to be a jewel heist story. I&#8217;ll be asking again, but I&#8217;m\u00a0looking\u00a0for people to rec me their favorite heist films\/novels.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned a lot working on this last project and I&#8217;m changing how I write going forward. I&#8217;ll post more about that at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, I haven&#8217;t lost all my blog readers for being quiet for so long. I am back! Promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent off the final part of RARER THAN RUBIES to the beta readers the other n ight, and I am so relieved. I can&#8217;t wait for feedback to help me focus on what really needs work, rather than going over and over it myself hoping I&#8217;m catching everything. I could still use a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,915],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beta-request","tag-rarer-than-rubies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-h6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}