{"id":1817,"date":"2014-11-01T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2014-11-01T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:29:27","slug":"writing-too-busy-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/01\/writing-too-busy-to-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing&#8211;too busy to blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AvengerDrop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AvengerDrop-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Torpedo&#039;s Away!\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AvengerDrop-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AvengerDrop-1024x795.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AvengerDrop.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d like to take the time to write something profound here, but I&#8217;m too darned busy completing my latest project, Uncle Herb&#8217;s World War II story, which is itself pretty profound. Suffice it to say I&#8217;m about halfway through the first full draft of the novel, and on a timeline to get that draft done within a week or two. Right about on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, I&#8217;m taking just a short break to let you know this project is nearing the finish line. I just plowed my way through the central description of Herb&#8217;s gun battle with Japanese Zeros bent on avenging his torpedo bomber striking a destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>That unequal fight (against seven Zeros) didn&#8217;t work out too well for Herb. Next I&#8217;ll be writing about his crash in flames on a tropical jungle island.<\/p>\n<p>So now you know what I&#8217;ve been up to. I&#8217;d better get back to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just plowed my way through the central description of Herb&#8217;s gun battle with Japanese Zeros bent on avenging his torpedo bomber striking a destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Fleet. <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/01\/writing-too-busy-to-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,15,16],"tags":[77,337,25,27,335,336],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-guadalcanal-aviators","category-uncle-herb","tag-77","tag-avenger","tag-guadalcanal","tag-herbert-hopp","tag-new-georgia-island","tag-torpedo-bomber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}