{"id":1434,"date":"2011-11-24T23:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2011-11-24T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T07:45:57","slug":"and-in-these-last-late-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/and-in-these-last-late-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"and in these last late hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of Second Thanksgiving, what am I grateful for?<\/p>\n<p>The obvious things, of course &#8211; my partner Anna, the ability to plot my way through the financial and political crises of the day, the friends I have, all those things that matter to everyone. They matter to me, too.<\/p>\n<p>But more, I&#8217;m thankful for the opportunity and ability to at least <em>try<\/em> to execute my art. I&#8217;ve fought hard for this &#8211; both for opportunity and ability &#8211; in ways most of you will never know, and really, don&#8217;t want to know. I don&#8217;t have many fans yet (and I love you, fans I have!) and I may never succeed the way I want or be able to make a living wage at it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but I can legitimately <em>try<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Getting to <em>that<\/em> point has been a monumental battle, physical and emotional, of many phases and many years. And I have attained at least that much, at long last.<\/p>\n<p>And for that, and for this opportunity, I am <em>profoundly<\/em> grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of Second Thanksgiving, what am I grateful for? The obvious things, of course &#8211; my partner Anna, the ability to plot my way through the financial and political crises of the day, the friends I have, all those things that matter to everyone. They matter to me, too. But more, I&#8217;m thankful for the opportunity [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}