{"id":2245,"date":"2009-08-12T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:21:58","slug":"excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/08\/12\/excuses-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a zillion excuses why I&#8217;m not blogging every day.  No cell network, I&#8217;m driving all day, Mary Ann&#8217;s laptop has crashed, so I have to share motel time with her so she can catch up on her Facebook activities.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I&#8217;ve got a download running, so while I still have my keyboard:  We have finished Worldcon in Montreal where I got a lovely Golden Duck award for Lighter Than Air.  I met lots of people who commented on my WINNER ribbon or my yellow duck necklace and if half of them who promised to buy the book remember to do so when they get home, I&#8217;ll be very pleased.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SoIk_SbatjI\/AAAAAAAAAnU\/iZY3sLX-8Rc\/s1600-h\/IMG_0101.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368894375476246066\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SoIk-7q4f0I\/AAAAAAAAAnM\/mCEIr-kx-IY\/s1600-h\/IMG_0099.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0099.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368894369367097154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Now, we&#8217;re traveling eastward through French speaking territories and visiting Canadian National Parks.  <\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SoIlATXtonI\/AAAAAAAAAnc\/WF95k43V3zw\/s1600-h\/IMG_0103.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0103.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368894392909013618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>BTW, this is bear country again.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a zillion excuses why I&#8217;m not blogging every day. No cell network, I&#8217;m driving all day, Mary Ann&#8217;s laptop has crashed, so I have to share motel time with her so she can catch up on her Facebook activities. But I&#8217;ve got a download running, so while I still have my keyboard: We&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/08\/12\/excuses-excuses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excuses, Excuses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,56,261],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0101.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Ad","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}