{"id":3706,"date":"2014-07-03T06:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2014-07-03T06:45:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T10:45:31","slug":"beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3706","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I love beginnings more than anything else. That crisp new page, unmarred by words. It could become anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131016180637.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3353 lazyload\" alt=\"20131016180637\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131016180637.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131016180637.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131016180637-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3353\" alt=\"20131016180637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131016180637.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131016180637.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131016180637-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just began the next novel in my Highlander trilogy, and once more, I find myself transported by the joy of possibility. I have an outline for this novel, of course. I know where I think its going. But always, my characters take me places I never thought to go, and show me things about them and about myself that I never hoped to find. I love starting this journey.<\/p>\n<p>I love beginnings. This road could lead anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I love beginnings more than anything else. That crisp new page, unmarred by words. It could become anything. I just began the next novel in my Highlander trilogy, and once more, I find myself transported by the joy of possibility. I have an outline for this novel, of course. I know where I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3706\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beginnings<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}