{"id":411,"date":"2010-04-29T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2010-04-29T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:33:00","slug":"stop-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/stop-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop-Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I could blog about if I weren&#8217;t so tired:<\/p>\n<p>-The careers I would take on in another life (Broadway <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Nadia\" src=\"http:\/\/myhero.com\/images\/guest\/g201093\/hero47627\/g201093_u53630_Img214046322%5B1%5D.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"241\" \/>orchestrator; gynecologist; Olympic gymnast)<\/p>\n<p>-What&#8217;s going on with my work-<a href=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Deep-ruts-courtesy-of-our-friends-the-horses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-412\" title=\"Deep ruts courtesy of our friends the horses\" src=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Deep-ruts-courtesy-of-our-friends-the-horses-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>in-progress (I&#8217;m facing down the last few chapters and daunted about the prospect of pulling it all together.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a photo of a ditched-out horse trail, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"derby pie\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xslElWhAZBQ\/SWBMjf3N86I\/AAAAAAAABJ4\/LF07L9FONJ4\/s400\/pie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"117\" \/>-How it&#8217;s Derby season here in Kentucky and there were Derby Pie samples at the grocery store this morning and I almost fainted with delight (Derby Pie=pecan pie with chocolate chips.\u00a0 It is SO GOOD.)<\/p>\n<p>-Um<\/p>\n<p>-Something else<\/p>\n<p>-Probably another thing<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"indie bound\" src=\"http:\/\/www.riversendbookstore.com\/images\/IndieBoundLogo_2Colorwhite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-I&#8217;m really happy that <em>Nice and Mean<\/em> will be on the Summer Indie Next List&#8211;I told you that, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-What does it say about me that I repeatedly bury the lead?<\/p>\n<p>-Also might as well mention that I&#8217;ve almost confirmed dates for launch parties in Louisville, NYC, Providence and Boston<\/p>\n<p>-I bought pretty Indian bangle bracelets to give away as swag for <em>Nice and Mean <\/em>and kind of all I want to do is make them ring-a-ling all day long<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about it.\u00a0 If you would like to propose a topic for me to blog about, please go ahead.\u00a0 Especially if you&#8217;re my friend, and you once heard me talk about something funny, please remind me what it is so I can talk about it.\u00a0 I would welcome a little direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I could blog about if I weren&#8217;t so tired: -The careers I would take on in another life (Broadway orchestrator; gynecologist; Olympic gymnast) -What&#8217;s going on with my work-in-progress (I&#8217;m facing down the last few chapters and daunted about the prospect of pulling it all together.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a photo of a ditched-out horse trail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writerly-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}