{"id":1490,"date":"2008-07-27T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T22:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2008-07-27T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T22:35:22","slug":"new-acquaintances-and-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/new-acquaintances-and-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"New Acquaintances and Old Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been an exciting week at Rantings and Ravings.  Two new acquaintances from How to Think Sideways dropped in to say hello, and an old friend from Air Force technical training 28 years ago showed up to touch base.  Cathy, Texanne, and Kim &#8212; thanks for stopping in and taking the time to comment. Cathy,\u00a0 fingers are crossed for your tenure coming through.<\/p>\n<p>On the fictional front, I&#8217;m making slow progress in rethinking POVs for Twilight, considering greater and lesser roles for some characters.\u00a0 Hilda, Suzan, and Valencia may get greater POV roles&#8230;Merlin and Pete&#8217;s POVs may disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been an exciting week at Rantings and Ravings. Two new acquaintances from How to Think Sideways dropped in to say hello, and an old friend from Air Force technical training 28 years ago showed up to touch base. Cathy, Texanne, and Kim &#8212; thanks for stopping in and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/new-acquaintances-and-old-friends\/\"><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":[46,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-twilight"],"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\/1490","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=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}