{"id":7559,"date":"2015-02-28T05:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/28\/more-i-believe-2006-was-one-of-my-most\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T05:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:59:20","slug":"more-i-believe-2006-was-one-of-my-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/28\/more-i-believe-2006-was-one-of-my-most\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>I believe 2006 was one of my most ambitious and pretentious years as a writer. I tried my hand at just about everything, from 25+ forms of poetry to the personal essay to fanciful languages (which I took notes for class in, <i>and read afterwards<\/i>) to Disney song parodies to short fiction trying to encapsulate my fangirl-laced sexually confused dreams to co-authored novels to &ldquo;&quot;songfic&rdquo;&ldquo; (a popular form of fanfiction in 2006) to articles for a Redwall e-zine on how to build characters. none of it was good. none of it was the worst of the time, but none of it was good. adn I thought I was <i>the shit<\/i>. I saved documents with titles like &quot;Exercises to learn Zaban&rdquo; and &ldquo;I Dreamed on November 15, 2005&rdquo; and &ldquo;Where Terrorists Lurk&rdquo;. I took everything SO SERIOUSLY, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe 2006 was one of my most ambitious and pretentious years as a writer. I tried my hand at just about everything, from 25+ forms of poetry to the personal essay to fanciful languages (which I took notes for class in, and read afterwards) to Disney song parodies to short fiction trying to encapsulate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/28\/more-i-believe-2006-was-one-of-my-most\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4293,939],"class_list":["post-7559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baby-august-writerlife","tag-writerlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}