{"id":1543,"date":"2007-12-03T20:38:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T01:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2007-12-03T20:38:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T01:38:23","slug":"on-first-of-the-month-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"On First-of-the-Month Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the creative mind of <a href=\"http:\/\/kradical.livejournal.com\/1100676.html\">Keith DeCandido<\/a>, &#8220;Tell what the first post of every month of the 2007 calendar year was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okie-day!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>January<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=942\">On Incompetant Blundering<\/a> &mdash; An after-action report of an <i>Age of Empires III<\/i> game.<\/li>\n<li><b>February<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=959\">On Invitations<\/a> &mdash; I was invited to a blogger conference.<\/li>\n<li><b>March<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=978\">On the New Mission<\/a> &mdash; I was Go! on a short story due May 1st.<\/li>\n<li><b>April<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=996\">On Future <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> Games<\/a> &mdash; Although <i>Lord of the Rings: The White Council<\/i> was dead, EA planned to forge ahead with new video games.<\/li>\n<li><b>May<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1110\">On the Old Mission<\/a> &mdash; The short story was turned in.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1528\">I received the galleys just recently<\/a>.  Still can&#8217;t talk about it.  Sorry.  But it&#8217;s going to be awesome when I can. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><b>June<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=287\">On Forty Years Ago Today<\/a> &mdash; <i>Sgt Pepper<\/i> was released forty years ago, June 1st.<\/li>\n<li><b>July<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1204\">On Asking Allyn Anything<\/a> &mdash; I opened the floor to questions, and got&#8230; one.<\/li>\n<li><b>August<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1249\">On Joy in Wrigleyville<\/a> &mdash; Frank Deford praised the Chicago Cubs as the one happy thing in sports this year, and I couldn&#8217;t argue.<\/li>\n<li><b>September<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1307\">On Presidential Primary Madness<\/a> &mdash; The Presidential primary system is broken, and I felt like ranting.<\/li>\n<li><b>October<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1369\">On the Coming Crack-Up<\/a> &mdash; The Republican Party is probably going to fracture, as its religious base and its monied backers have two <i>completely<\/i> different ideas about what&#8217;s best for the party.<\/li>\n<li><b>November<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1478\">On Talking <i>Star Trek: Voyager<\/i><\/a> &mdash; A conversation at work prompted by thoughts on how <i>Star Trek: Voyager<\/i> could have been <i>really<\/i> cool and different.<\/li>\n<li><b>December<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1537\">On Things I Don&#8217;t Remember<\/a> &mdash; I wrote a letter to the local newspaper, and discovered this nearly nine months later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Video and computer games.  Writing.  Politics.  The Chicago Cubs.  And random nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like me! \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the creative mind of Keith DeCandido, &#8220;Tell what the first post of every month of the 2007 calendar year was.&#8221; Okie-day! January: On Incompetant Blundering &mdash; An after-action report of an Age of Empires III game. February: On Invitations &mdash; I was invited to a blogger conference. 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