{"id":862,"date":"2020-01-15T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2020-01-15T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:15:52","slug":"this-is-some-parade-yesiree-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/15\/this-is-some-parade-yesiree-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"This is some parade, yesiree Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Magazine reading. I subscribe to <em>Wire<\/em> magazine and it\u2019s great to see the main feature is about Wire and their new album. Also read some tech magazines&#8230; but the less said about this nerdish preoccupation, the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very sore after my walk out yesterday. Surely I didn\u2019t overdo it just having a little walk. I was told that someone\u2019s partner took 6 weeks to get over a similar operation and go back to work. I\u2019m looking at going back on Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listened to an episode of The Writers Panel podcast <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"interview with Paul Tremblay  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/episode\/479bd45a-1e25-41f5-82ff-7de5c0c4d42a\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Paul Tremblay <\/a>that was very interesting in terms of his writing methods (how, how much, music, etc). Tremblay impresses by his self-determination and ownership of his craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also read Ken Lui&#8217;s story, <em>Paper Menagerie<\/em>. It&#8217;s the first work of fiction to win all three of SF&#8217;s major awards: the Hugo, the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award. It&#8217;s an upsetting story about an American boy who can&#8217;t forget that his father bought his Chinese mother from a catalogue. His mother, who barely speaks English, creates animals out of folded paper that move to express her love for him. It has a tearful ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magazine reading. I subscribe to Wire magazine and it\u2019s great to see the main feature is about Wire and their new album. Also read some tech magazines&#8230; but the less said about this nerdish preoccupation, the better. Very sore after my walk out yesterday. Surely I didn\u2019t overdo it just having a little walk. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}