{"id":2089,"date":"2012-06-01T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:24:41","slug":"diurnalism-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/diurnalism-is-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"diurnalism is a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up early, waiting for my partner and occasional collaborator Anna as she gets dental surgery done &#8211; it&#8217;s nothing serious, but does involve anaesthetics which mean Anna requires babysitting. Note: DO allow texting (because <em>hilarious<\/em>), but do NOT allow root access.<\/p>\n<p>This diurnal thing is for the birds.<\/p>\n<p>We have a winner on the review lottery; thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/403.dreamwidth.org\">403<\/a> on Dreamwidth <a href=\"http:\/\/403.dreamwidth.org\/104187.html\">for the kind notes about Cracksman Betty<\/a>, particularly the songs <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com\/track\/song-for-a-blockade-runner-high-barbaree\">Song for a Blockade Runner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com\/track\/columbia-scene-from-a-revolution\">Columbia<\/a>. Get me your address so I can mail you a signed physical CD! The band address works fine. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Leannan Sidhe&#8217;s Kickstarter project has hit $2500, or 83.3%; statistically speaking, they&#8217;re sure to make it at this point. So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/leannansidhe\/mine-to-love-songs-of-dark-fairytales-love-and-enc\">go pick a level, &#8217;cause at this point you&#8217;re pre-ordering<\/a>. \ud83d\ude00 They&#8217;ve also announced some stretch goals.<\/p>\n<p>And finally congratulations to friend-of-friends Mira Grant, whose novel <i>Blackout<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/ZimmkvMYWOxR\">made the New York Times mass-market paperback best-seller list<\/a>. I&#8217;ve read the first two (<i>Feed<\/i> and <i>Deadline<\/i>) and have this concluding novel queued up to read today while babysitting Anna. I&#8217;d&#8217;ve read it before, but I didn&#8217;t want to lose a day, which is what tends to happen with these things.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend, everybody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up early, waiting for my partner and occasional collaborator Anna as she gets dental surgery done &#8211; it&#8217;s nothing serious, but does involve anaesthetics which mean Anna requires babysitting. Note: DO allow texting (because hilarious), but do NOT allow root access. This diurnal thing is for the birds. We have a winner on the review [&#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":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-notes","category-other-peoples-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}