{"id":1725,"date":"2016-01-01T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2016-01-03T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T07:44:18","slug":"this-has-always-been-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/this-has-always-been-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"This Has Always Been the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a quarter past eight on the first Monday of the new year, the yellow line on the way to the city has just passed Orinda. A young man is standing in the bicycle priority area near the doors, reading a paper magazine. <em>Write Your Novel in 2016!<\/em> is the cover story, followed by more teasers below: &quot;2 Tools That Can Fix Any Story Problem,&quot; &quot;What's <em>Really<\/em> at Stake? The Secret to More Compelling Characters,&quot; and &quot;5 Great Caribbean Literary Festivals: Get Away, Get Inspired!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It catches the eye of a young woman who got on at Lafayette and has spent the last six minutes scribbling in a Moleskine notebook. &quot;Oh!&quot; she says, approaching. &quot;Are you a writer, too?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The man looks up, seeming slightly surprised and confused, which slightly surprises and confuses her in turn. &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/thinking-about-writing\/\">Of course not<\/a>,&quot; he says, indicating the magazine. &quot;If I were, would I be reading <em>this<\/em>?&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a quarter past eight on the first Monday of the new year, the yellow line on the way to the city has just passed Orinda. A young man is standing in the bicycle priority area near the doors, reading &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/this-has-always-been-the-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[47,16,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}