{"id":1318,"date":"2011-12-14T22:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2011-12-14T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:27:28","slug":"the-plot-thickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2011\/12\/14\/the-plot-thickens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plot Thickens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well yes, it’s true. The plot for my upcoming work-in-progress (AKA-barely started) novel is thickening. No, you read that right, not “sickening,” but “thickening.” But as this all begins to take shape, I find myself coming back from an adrenalin high coming from the high altitude at the Annual American Society for Cell Biology meeting in the mile-high city–Denver–to join Defiant the Firefighting Guinea Pig<\/a>. This time in a never ending battle to put out ever smoldering fires in the halls of academe.<\/p>\n

But I now race against time and all odds to finish the grading of my portion of 50 graduate exams, and time is of the essence–as I am soon to fly over the pond for visits in the Holyland. So I will bow out for now–with one final self-promotion for 2011. For anyone interested, please see\/read my author-interview with Editor Robin Stratton at the Boston Literary Magazine<\/a> (I have to admit, it’s so flattering, that I’m tickled pink–and green and all other colors as well…):<\/p>\n

Cheers and happy holidays to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well yes, it’s true. The plot for my upcoming work-in-progress (AKA-barely started) novel is thickening. No, you read that right, not “sickening,” but “thickening.” But as this all begins to take shape, I find myself coming back from an adrenalin … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,50],"tags":[70,599,600,598,596,71,597,595],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science","tag-author","tag-drivel","tag-exams-boston-literary-magazine","tag-grading","tag-interview","tag-novel","tag-teaching","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}