{"id":615516,"date":"2009-12-15T18:18:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2009-12-15T18:18:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:18:36","slug":"take-the-long-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/615516","title":{"rendered":"Take the Long View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa or \u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u05db\u05d4, I&#8217;d like to invite you to <a href=\"http:\/\/margiewrites.com\">Margie Gelbwasser<\/a>&#8217;s week-plus-a-day of festivities. Margie is the author of <em>Inconvenient<\/em>, a debut novel which will get published by Flux in 2010. She&#8217;s invited a spate of her fellow 2010 debut authors to share their writing tips, and thrown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margiewrites.com\/contests\/night-4-writing-tip\/\">my own guest entry<\/a> in the middle like the big candle in a menorah. As a sophomore, I should be hazing these frosh, but I like them all so I&#8217;ll be cool. For now, at least. Tomorrow, who knows? I&#8217;m as unpredictable as a dreidel. Yes, I really had to work to set up that last simile. Zot, you think Hanukkah similes are easy? They&#8217;re a latke of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa or \u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u05db\u05d4, I&#8217;d like to invite you to Margie Gelbwasser&#8217;s week-plus-a-day of festivities. Margie is the author of Inconvenient, a debut novel which will get published by Flux in 2010. She&#8217;s invited a spate of her fellow 2010 debut authors to share their writing tips, and thrown my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2A7G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}