{"id":290,"date":"2008-11-07T01:44:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-11-07T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T08:44:17","slug":"a-slow-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/a-slow-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"A slow spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last week has been somewhat frustrating.\u00a0 Started it off well, with good progress in my story, but early on in the week, all kinds of assignments started piling onto me&#8211;stuff that I should have seen coming, but have been putting off &#8217;til the last minute (as usual).\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t help that I just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abandonia.com\/en\/games\/505\/Genghis+Khan+II+-+Clan+of+the+Gray+Wolf.html\">Genghis Khan II<\/a>, a really awesome old DOS game. :p<\/p>\n<p>So, between juggling homework, struggling not to get addicted to this new game, and dealing with exhaustion in general, it&#8217;s been a pretty slow week.<\/p>\n<p>The upside, though, is that I&#8217;ve had lots of time to think about the universe of <em>Hero in Exile<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got some REALLY awesome ideas for the world, stuff that&#8217;s inspired by Heinlein&#8217;s <em>Citizen of the Galaxy<\/em> and the rise of the Mongol Empire.\u00a0 History 240 is one of my favorite classes this semester&#8211;it gives me so many good story ideas!<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I can hardly wait to get to the really good parts of my novel.\u00a0 I just wish I didn&#8217;t have so much school to worry about.\u00a0 Grr&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot that I want to blog about, but I need to get my sleep tonight.\u00a0 Take home test due tomorrow for PLSC 201, and I want to get it finished before work at 10 am (yeah right&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last week has been somewhat frustrating.\u00a0 Started it off well, with good progress in my story, but early on in the week, all kinds of assignments started piling onto me&#8211;stuff that I should have seen coming, but have been putting off &#8217;til the last minute (as usual).\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t help that I just discovered&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/a-slow-spot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A slow spot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[34,42,39],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-college-life","tag-frustrations","tag-schoolwork","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}