{"id":8629,"date":"2012-04-18T21:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2012-04-18T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T01:41:14","slug":"wednesday-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8629","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/7088975405\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7184\/7088975405_44c649f465.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went back to the office today, but it was colder and overcast, turning to rain by the evening, so it&#8217;s probably all for the best. I wouldn&#8217;t have spent much of today out in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>The official announcement about my new position at work, which has been tied up for a couple of reasons even though I&#8217;ve ostensibly had the new job for over a month, went out finally by e-mail today. It&#8217;s weird to be praised for my &#8220;calm and affable nature,&#8221; but it is nice to be officially welcomed into the new group. (That affable calm thing, though? It&#8217;s all an act.)<\/p>\n<p>Today was a day of meetings, or at least two meetings, sandwiched around a brown bag lunch. Our speaker was Tere Stouffer, best know as the author of <i>The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to the World of Harry Potter<\/i>. She detailed her experience writing that book, which J.K. Rowling has cited as the <i>good<\/i> kind of scholarly guide to her wizarding world, and in publishing in general. And there were free sandwiches for lunch, so I&#8217;m not going to complain.<\/p>\n<p>And that was my Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went back to the office today, but it was colder and overcast, turning to rain by the evening, so it&#8217;s probably all for the best. I wouldn&#8217;t have spent much of today out in the backyard. The official announcement about my new position at work, which has been tied up for a couple of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8629\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,28,11,52],"class_list":["post-8629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-personal","tag-publishing","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}