{"id":4227,"date":"2012-05-17T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2012-05-16T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T02:58:07","slug":"sneak-peek-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/05\/17\/sneak-peek-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Peek: Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Old Man.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/oldmantjw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"504\" \/>I recently mentioned that I was working on a novella called <em>Old Man<\/em>. Well, a draft is done, and I&#8217;m beginning to polish things up a bit before offering it as an e-book. I <em>also <\/em>mentioned that I&#8217;d give everybody a sneak peek at <em>Old Man<\/em>. <a title=\"The first three chapters of my novella, Old Man.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/oldmanpeek.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">That sneak peek is right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Old Man About?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Old Man<\/em> is about Phil Johnson, a 16-year-old who begins acting  like an old man in a last-ditch effort to get to know his dying  grandfather. After his grandfather&#8217;s death, the lines between Phil  acting like an old man and <em>believing <\/em>he&#8217;s an old man blur even more &#8212; until it looks like nothing can bring him back.<\/p>\n<p><em>Old Man<\/em> is my favorite thing I&#8217;ve ever written. While I&#8217;ve written more ambitious stories, nothing means as much to me as <em>Old Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy this sneak peek!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently mentioned that I was working on a novella called Old Man. Well, a draft is done, and I&#8217;m beginning to polish things up a bit before offering it as an e-book. I also mentioned that I&#8217;d give everybody a sneak peek at Old Man. That sneak peek is right here. What is Old [&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":[21,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227"}],"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=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}