{"id":1579,"date":"2010-06-15T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/2010\/06\/like-lot-of-authors-i-know-im-playing\/"},"modified":"2015-07-28T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:22:28","slug":"like-lot-of-authors-i-know-im-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/2010\/06\/15\/like-lot-of-authors-i-know-im-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta stop counting the days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of authors I know, I&#8217;m playing the waiting game right now. Actually, I&#8217;m waiting for news on just about everything, lol. I&#8217;m so desperate for some <em>good <\/em>news (any good writing news!) that I went out yesterday and bought myself a silk rose to commemorate my first sale. I never got one from my RWA chapter for <em>Out of Her League<\/em>, because I joined them after I&#8217;d made the sale. My new rose is now sitting on top of my armoire with the others, forming a nice little bouquet. I&#8217;d like to make the bouquet much larger, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>My six year old watched me select the yellow-and-peach rose yesterday while he held a basket of crafts and activity books for him and his brother. &#8220;Hm,&#8221; he said, studying it seriously. &#8220;I like that color. And maybe if you put it in the garden, the black vine weevils will try to eat it and get sick and die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*g* Now why didn&#8217;t I think of that? By the way, I put some really strong pesticide down that another local gardener recommended to me, but the bugs are still out there. There are fewer of them, but that might be because I&#8217;ve picked most of them off the plants by now. Hard to say who&#8217;s winning the war just yet, but I&#8217;m still determined to stop them!<\/p>\n<p>So all of you out there, please send some good vibes my way and hopefully I&#8217;ll have news of another sale soon. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve got another story to write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of authors I know, I&#8217;m playing the waiting game right now. Actually, I&#8217;m waiting for news on just about everything, lol. I&#8217;m so desperate for some good news (any good writing news!) that I went out yesterday and bought myself a silk rose to commemorate my first sale. I never got one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-black-vine-weevils"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}