{"id":812,"date":"2013-08-17T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-08-17T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T16:30:45","slug":"much-has-happened-since-last-i-bogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Much has happened since last I blogged&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/full_allthesnakehandlers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-814\" alt=\"full_allthesnakehandlers\" src=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/full_allthesnakehandlers.jpg\" width=\"551\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/full_allthesnakehandlers.jpg 551w, http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/full_allthesnakehandlers-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this Scott Bakal image incredible? \u00c2\u00a0My good fortune is that it accompanies my story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2013\/07\/all-the-snake-handlers-i-know-are-dead\">&#8220;All The Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead&#8221;<\/a> at Tor.com. \u00c2\u00a0It appeared on July 31st, but I was deep in the throes of a computer crash and a glacially slow Carbonite restore that&#8217;s had me on a forced vacation since returning from Maine. \u00c2\u00a0Better late than never. \u00c2\u00a0I recently visited the home that inspired this story and had a wonderful time in spite of continual driving rain.<\/p>\n<p>My experience as a resident at Norton Island exceeded my wildest expectations. \u00c2\u00a0What a wonderful place, what wonderful people. \u00c2\u00a0I finished a story and completed a draft of another while there. \u00c2\u00a0I almost lost it all in the computer crash, but fortunately I&#8217;d saved that work on a thumb drive as I was leaving the island. \u00c2\u00a0My computer was completely dead when I woke it from sleep the day after I returned. \u00c2\u00a0A humbling experience.<\/p>\n<p>I start teaching on Thursday, an Advanced Fiction Writing class at VCU, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it. \u00c2\u00a0Meanwhile I&#8217;m trying to reconnect to the e-world and sort out what I&#8217;ve lost. \u00c2\u00a0If I&#8217;ve neglected anyone out there, it&#8217;s only because I lost my laptop, and I was adrift without my virtual life. \u00c2\u00a0Somebody should write a novel about this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t this Scott Bakal image incredible? \u00c2\u00a0My good fortune is that it accompanies my story, &#8220;All The Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead&#8221; at Tor.com. \u00c2\u00a0It appeared on July 31st, but I was deep in the throes of a computer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication-news","category-teaching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}