{"id":114,"date":"2009-09-19T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-09-19T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T18:31:33","slug":"austin-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/09\/19\/austin-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin or Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/wltlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the past couple years, I&#8217;ve wanted to attend an annual writers conference in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 Each year, there was always a reason not to attend (work schedules, finances, not having my third novel completed).<\/p>\n<p>I gave myself excuses<em> <\/em><strong>not<\/strong> to attend.<\/p>\n<p>This year, <strong>instead of excuses<\/strong>, I&#8217;ve given myself a <strong>deadline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just registered for the <a href=\"http:\/\/writersleague.org\/events\/10-conf.htm\">2010 Writers&#8217; League of Texas Agents Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to have the fourth and final rewrite of the current novel ready to pitch and to enjoy a long weekend in Austin next June.<\/p>\n<p><em>(If anybody&#8217;s attended the conference, I&#8217;m interested in hearing what you thought about it.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple years, I&#8217;ve wanted to attend an annual writers conference in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 Each year, there was always a reason not to attend (work schedules, finances, not having my third novel completed). I gave myself excuses not to attend. This year, instead of excuses, I&#8217;ve given myself a deadline. I just registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[18,17,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}