{"id":751,"date":"2010-11-14T04:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T11:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2010-11-14T04:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T11:40:41","slug":"caught-up-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/caught-up-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught Up At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nano-2010-11-13b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nano-2010-11-13b-1024x711.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Nano 2010-11-13b\" width=\"450\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nano-2010-11-13b-1024x711.png 1024w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nano-2010-11-13b-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nano-2010-11-13b.png 1401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>33,569 words. 21,696 of them new. The goal for November 13: 21,666. I know technically it&#8217;s November 14, but I&#8217;m going to bed now and have a full day ahead of me in which I only need to write the nominal 1,666 words, so I am officially caught up at this point.  And as the graph shows, finally the rising tide of words completed has caught up with the solid line of words desired. Yaay!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit to tide you over: rough drafty stuff, as all Nano is, but it&#8217;s getting the scene set down the way I want it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJeremiah stepped out into the street, taking in the smells and sounds of Boston: cold air, wafting soup, crackling leather, fragrant horses, whirring gears, walking feet. God, she loved this town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere you are, Commander,\u201d a young girl said, walking her cycle up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, dear,\u201d Jeremiah said, pulling the boy\u2019s two shillings out and adding a third for the girl. \u201cApportion it fairly among you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Ma\u2019am,\u201d she said\u2014then gasped. \u201cOh my goodness!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Jeremiah followed her gaze to see the Prince Edward shimmering into existence above them, a rope ladder tumbling down towards her. \u201cAll right!\u201d she said, leaping up onto a horse-tie, then into the air to catch the ladder.<\/p>\n<p>Her weight brought it down, just slightly\u2014taking tension in the rope, of course, not lowering the Prince Edward\u2014and as she swung back she reached down towards the girl. \u201cHeave it here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you all right, Ma\u2019am?\u201d she cried, even as she raised the cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever better!\u201d she said, seizing the cycle with her free hand. Predictably the Edward didn\u2019t wait, and in moments she was rising above the street, holding on to the ladder with one hand and the bike with the other, trusting the boomsman to keep her clear of the buildings as she ascended into one of those singular adventures that enlivened her life.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Off to bed. <\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>33,569 words. 21,696 of them new. The goal for November 13: 21,666. I know technically it&#8217;s November 14, but I&#8217;m going to bed now and have a full day ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,67,66],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-gaslights-and-rayguns","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}