{"id":1687,"date":"2014-06-28T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2014-06-28T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:50:59","slug":"saving-lives-too-busy-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/saving-lives-too-busy-to-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving lives&#8211;too busy to blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice when the biotech industry comes knocking at my door and asks for my help saving people&#8217;s lives. I have been acting as an expert consultant to a new biotech company and we are under a deadline to get a clinical trial proposal to the FDA for testing a new anemia remedy.<\/p>\n<p>Considering my father suffered from anemia in the years before he died, I am particularly happy to lend my skills in the battle to create a new drug to fight the disease.<\/p>\n<p>This does, however, put my fiction writing on hold. My next book, Blood on the Moon, will suffer about a month&#8217;s delay.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I wrote &#8217;round-the-clock, literally, yesterday on our Investigational New Drug application. This is its own kind of medical thriller.<\/p>\n<p>Bye for now. Gotta go get with it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote &#8217;round-the-clock, literally, yesterday on our Investigational New Drug application. <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/saving-lives-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":[64,59],"tags":[226,240,51],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-real-science","tag-medical-thriller","tag-new","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}