{"id":5301,"date":"2010-08-20T19:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2010-08-20T19:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:12:04","slug":"on-a-surprisingly-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5301","title":{"rendered":"On a Surprisingly Good Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was, barring two transportation snags with the Baltimore Light Rail system that aren&#8217;t worth mentioning, a surprisingly good day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I received an Advance Reader&#8217;s Copy of Michael Moorcock&#8217;s forthcoming <i>Doctor Who<\/i> novel, <i>The Coming of the Terraphiles<\/i>. \ud83d\ude2f<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Voyager2\/status\/21672724174\">I was retweeted by the Voyager 2 space probe<\/a>.  (Okay, okay, it&#8217;s by the JPL team, but still.  That&#8217;s just <i>cool<\/i>.) \ud83d\ude0e<\/li>\n<li>I was given a token for a free milkshake at Z-Burger. \ud83d\ude09 <\/li>\n<li>I wrote an article &mdash; and it didn&#8217;t suck!<\/li>\n<li>I got some serious reading on <i>A Game of Thrones<\/i> done on the trains today, and I&#8217;ve finally found the traction on the book that I could never, ever find.  I was always approaching it as a Generic High-Fantasy Epic, when really it&#8217;s <i>The Tudors<\/i>.  Now that I&#8217;ve had that breakthrough&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And, I survived an hour-and-a-half production meeting! \ud83d\udc7f<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And yes, I&#8217;m going to set aside <i>A Game of Thrones<\/i> to blitz my way through <i>The Coming of the Terraphiles<\/i> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a surprisingly good day.  Even if there were those transportation snags. :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was, barring two transportation snags with the Baltimore Light Rail system that aren&#8217;t worth mentioning, a surprisingly good day. I received an Advance Reader&#8217;s Copy of Michael Moorcock&#8217;s forthcoming Doctor Who novel, The Coming of the Terraphiles. \ud83d\ude2f I was retweeted by the Voyager 2 space probe. (Okay, okay, it&#8217;s by the JPL team,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5301\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Surprisingly Good Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4082,4124,4102],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-doctor-who","tag-work","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}