{"id":343,"date":"2016-12-11T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=343"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:23:47","slug":"continuing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Continuing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still working on <em>Water<\/em>. <em>Grimaulkin<\/em> is still with the beta reader, though I have some feedback that I need to work on (add more straight characters because the story takes place in 2000, and gay people are still firmly in the closet, build up the two secondary characters).<\/p>\n<p>So there isn&#8217;t much to talk about this week. I&#8217;m having trouble with Pisces in <em>Water<\/em>, mostly because I don&#8217;t know many Pisces, and I need to do more research on surgeons and doctors during the Civil War. I know they weren&#8217;t looked kindly upon, seen as butchers and cold-hearted men, but Pisces types like to help people. I have plenty of astrology books so I can look Pisces up.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, my son is set loose upon the world. He takes the bus for the first time to get to his new job. I&#8217;m terrified and proud at the same time. He&#8217;s autistic, so I&#8217;m afraid he&#8217;ll eventually take the wrong bus sometime and end up in some place he doesn&#8217;t know and can&#8217;t describe to me, so I won&#8217;t know where he is to find him. He is going to have a handler for the first couple of times he goes on the bus, but after that, he&#8217;s alone. I&#8217;m proud that he&#8217;s going to finally go to work.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a story in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still working on Water. Grimaulkin is still with the beta reader, though I have some feedback that I need to work on (add more straight characters because the story takes place in 2000, and gay people are still firmly in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brothers-of-the-zodiac-water","category-life-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}