{"id":82,"date":"2008-12-31T11:02:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-12-31T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T15:04:13","slug":"a-new-year-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"A New Year: Looking Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 2008 draws to a close, I, like so many, think not only of the year just passed, but of what the new year might bring. With my book sold, I have hope for more progress with my work: more sales, building a readership, finding the people who will benefit the most from my novel, and who will find the most joy in it. But I am also grateful for the year just passed, for its challenges as well as its benefits. Changing agents, learning more about my work and how to make it better, were all challenges that at first seemed like obstacles. But each\u00a0led me to new places, places I would never have gone, to country I would not otherwise have seen.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to exploring new country in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2008 draws to a close, I, like so many, think not only of the year just passed, but of what the new year might bring. With my book sold, I have hope for more progress with my work: more sales, building a readership, finding the people who will benefit the most from my novel, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=82\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A New Year: Looking Ahead<\/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\/82"}],"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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}