{"id":1480,"date":"2011-02-12T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2011-02-12T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T15:53:55","slug":"breathing-with-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Breathing with Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stephenkingchallenge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stephenkingchallenge-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stephenkingchallenge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stephenkingchallenge-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stephenkingchallenge.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Before things got so busy, I was reading six to ten books a week. It allowed my brain to process something else besides red marks and short stories.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been reading outside of slush and editing for a long time. In fact, I bought several books back in August or July that I haven&#8217;t even taken out of the shopping bag &#8211; they&#8217;re still in the bag, on a shelf. I feel kinda bad about that, and considering who the publisher is, I&#8217;m not even sure the authors will see the royalties from the purchases. :-\/<\/p>\n<p>I need to have some relaxation time. Twice yesterday I became so tense over some things that were said that don&#8217;t even directly involve me, I nearly said some really nasty things to someone I really care about. So &#8211; it&#8217;s break time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to take a break and breathe with my life-time favorite author, in the 2011 Stephen King Challenge. The goals are simple (for me anyway) &#8211; six to twelve of his books before the end of December. I&#8217;m sure I can handle that. If I&#8217;ve the time, I may post reviews and whatnot at the official site (see sidebar), and here too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;d like to tell me, in the comments below, which of his new titles &#8211; either <em>The Dome<\/em> or <em>Just After Sunset<\/em> &#8211; I should pick up? I&#8217;d like to add one new title while I&#8217;m at it.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I&#8217;ll start with <em>The Dark Half!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before things got so busy, I was reading six to ten books a week. It allowed my brain to process something else besides red marks and short stories.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t been reading outside of slush and editing for a long time. In fact, I bought several books back in August or July that I haven&#8217;t even taken out of the shopping bag &#8211; they&#8217;re still in the bag, on a shelf. I feel kinda bad about that, and considering who the publisher is, I&#8217;m not even sure the authors will see &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,1,870,799,2],"tags":[927,145,932,929,930,928,931],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","category-miscellania","category-projects-news","tag-2011-stephen-king-challenge","tag-books","tag-just-after-sunset","tag-reading","tag-relaxing","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-dome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}