{"id":942,"date":"2009-08-19T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/08\/19\/i-have-no-excuse-ffnf09\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T07:01:00","slug":"i-have-no-excuse-ffnf09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/08\/19\/i-have-no-excuse-ffnf09\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have No Excuse: FFNF09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it really has been six months since I posted the last installment of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">FREEFALL: No Fate<\/span>, and no, I have no excuse.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this entire serial outlined for <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">years<\/span>, and each chapter is less than 3,000 words.  I <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">should<\/span> be able to wrap this up in a matter of weeks, if not <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">days<\/span>.  I really have no excuse, which is why I&#8217;m not going to make any.  I&#8217;m just going to hunker down and bang out the rest of this story before the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a promise.  You can take that to the bank, and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it.  (If they allow smoking inside the building, that is.  Most places don&#8217;t these days.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/ff\/text\/NoFate\/09.html\">&#8220;Extorted Treasure,&#8221;<\/a> Chapter 9 of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">FREEFALL: No Fate<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/ff\/text\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/FF\/grfx\/ff-banner1.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it really has been six months since I posted the last installment of FREEFALL: No Fate, and no, I have no excuse. I&#8217;ve had this entire serial outlined for years, and each chapter is less than 3,000 words. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}