{"id":133,"date":"2010-03-10T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-03-10T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:59:40","slug":"being-the-first-part-of-the-next-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/being-the-first-part-of-the-next-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Being the first part of the next book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> promised at Christmas that I would make an early draft of the intro and first chapter of my next book available here at the end of January. That deadline slipped a little (no surprises there), and I haven&#8217;t finished the first chapter, but here&#8217;s a draft of an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Intro-draft.pdf\" title=\"Intro draft.pdf\">introduction<\/a>. Working title is <em>Lemmy<\/em>, final title unknown. By way of experiment, you can hear me read it <a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/103896-lemmy-the-draft-intro\">here<\/a>. I used the iPhone <a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/\">Audioboo<\/a> app, so there are a few stumbles, little polish.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond revealing that I stole the basic idea from a bloke called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Swift\">Swift<\/a>, I&#8217;m not going to go into more detail about the rest of the book because it hasn&#8217;t been written yet, and much might change. I added a whole new voice today, for example. My intention at the moment is to make the finished story available as a low cost ebook and print-on-demand paperback. When is a good question. Do not hold your breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised at Christmas that I would make an early draft of the intro and first chapter of my next book available here at the end of January. That deadline slipped a little (no surprises there), and I haven&#8217;t finished the first chapter, but here&#8217;s a draft of an introduction. Working title is Lemmy, final &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/being-the-first-part-of-the-next-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being the first part of the next book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,47],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-books","tag-book-project","tag-lemmy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}