{"id":1049,"date":"2011-09-04T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2011-09-04T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T21:48:37","slug":"landing-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Landing on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kayaking on the Long Island Sound is great thinking time. \u00a0Yesterday, between dreaming about what to make for dinner and paddling into the waves, I decided it is time to write a new book. \u00a0Time to step away from the manuscript I&#8217;m currently flogging and start another story. \u00a0Today, I opened up a blank document (it&#8217;s there still, behind this screen) and panicked. <em>How<\/em> did I ever write all those pages in the first place? I stared at that page waiting for words, then quickly retreated here to this less daunting space.<\/p>\n<p>I did it once, and I will do it again &#8212; but at least for now, the emptiness of the screen reflects my mind. Of course I know that what I write now will not be what I end up with. I&#8217;ll be editing, revising, trashing and revising again. It is NOT like landing on the moon. The beauty of writing is that I won&#8217;t be stuck with &#8220;one small step&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; it can be a leap, I just have to take it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayaking on the Long Island Sound is great thinking time. \u00a0Yesterday, between dreaming about what to make for dinner and paddling into the waves, I decided it is time to write a new book. \u00a0Time to step away from the manuscript I&#8217;m currently flogging and start another story. \u00a0Today, I opened up a blank document &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1049\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Landing on the Moon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}