{"id":27,"date":"2010-12-21T00:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T00:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraldhornsby.wordpress.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2010-12-21T00:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T00:36:43","slug":"editing-i-hate-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/editing-i-hate-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing? I hate editing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I really do. I mean, I&#8217;ve done the difficult bit. I&#8217;ve written the story, haven&#8217;t I? I&#8217;ve crafted the work, created the narrative. Isn&#8217;t that enough?<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, I&#8217;ve seen enough so-so stories, and just plain rubbish writing, that I know I have to do the absolute best I can with everything I do. It&#8217;s what I would expect, especially if I was paying for something.<\/p>\n<p>But God, I hate editing!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I played with covers tonight, instead of editing, and created what I think is a rather nice cover for my collection of shorts.<\/p>\n<p>I hope it&#8217;s successful.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_31\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bleak-75w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" src=\"http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bleak-75w.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bleak\" width=\"213\" height=\"340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover for Bleak Midwinter Tales<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I really do. I mean, I&#8217;ve done the difficult bit. I&#8217;ve written the story, haven&#8217;t I? I&#8217;ve crafted the work, created the narrative. Isn&#8217;t that enough? The fact is, I&#8217;ve seen enough so-so stories, and just plain rubbish writing, that I know I have to do the absolute best I can with everything I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3CH-r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}