{"id":10600,"date":"2006-06-10T22:13:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T03:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/10\/adding-some-stress\/"},"modified":"2006-06-10T22:13:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T03:13:51","slug":"adding-some-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/adding-some-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Some Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I completed the read through for <em>Threads &#038; Ties<\/em> today. I&#8217;ve marked several sections where I can either reduce words or can convey the same idea in a more active way. I&#8217;ll deal with them during rewrite. Most of the last part that I thought was crap looks like it will be salvagable. The book stands at 55,606 words &#8212; just a hair over halfway done. Now I&#8217;m planning how to get from the middle of the book to the end. In that process, I&#8217;m looking for ways to add stress. I think that&#8217;s going to be easier than I thought now that I look at it.\u00a0 With any luck, I&#8217;ll finish by early August.\u00a0 Well, luck won&#8217;t play much of a part in it &#8212; concentrated effort will make all the difference in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completed the read through for Threads &#038; Ties today. I&#8217;ve marked several sections where I can either reduce words or can convey the same idea in a more active way. I&#8217;ll deal with them during rewrite. Most of the last part that I thought was crap looks like it <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/adding-some-stress\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-threads-ties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}