{"id":258,"date":"2011-11-22T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=258"},"modified":"2012-07-08T19:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:39:55","slug":"i-know-six-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"I Know Five Idiots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_260\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-260\" title=\"neil-gaiman-on-the-simpsons_119x150\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/neil-gaiman-on-the-simpsons_119x1501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Fonzie Is Right!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last Sunday&#8217;s episode of the Simpsons, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvfanatic.com\/2011\/11\/the-simpsons-review-the-book-job\/\">The Book Job<\/a>&#8220;, was significant from a\u00a0literary\u00a0point of view not only because it had Neil Gaiman as a guest star, but because it blew the lid off the YA-fantasy genre complex.<\/p>\n<p>But really, engaged as I am in <a title=\"NaNoWriMo: Dancing on the Razor-Edge of Rocketing Insanity\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=239\">NaNoWriMo<\/a>, I was struck by some wisdom from Lisa: &#8220;I&#8217;ll just bang out 2,000 words then stop, even if I&#8217;m on fire.&#8221; \u00a0Good advice for us all, Lisa, good advice for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday&#8217;s episode of the Simpsons, &#8220;The Book Job&#8220;, was significant from a\u00a0literary\u00a0point of view not only because it had Neil Gaiman as a guest star, but because it blew the lid off the YA-fantasy genre complex. But really, engaged as I am in NaNoWriMo, I was struck by some wisdom from Lisa: &#8220;I&#8217;ll just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}