{"id":3465,"date":"2012-07-23T08:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T12:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2012-07-23T08:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T12:18:59","slug":"news-on-the-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"news on the march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here's some news, on a couple of fronts.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not one-third of the way through <em>Against the Day.<\/em> If I was reading it in hard copy, around 350 pages.  So far, I have no idea where it's going and, frankly, no idea if it's going anywhere at all. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening (and some not so interesting stuff) but I feel like the person who criticized the first part of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-town.com\/text\/utown\">U-town<\/a><\/I> for being \"too much like life.\" And I remember that the biggest factor in which Pynchon novels are first class (and which are not quite there) is whether or not there's a real ending. Which I talked about <a href=\"index.php?p=458\">here<\/a>. But I'm certainly not about to stop, so I'll report more later.<\/p>\n<p><BR>I've got a lot of very helpful comments on the mystery stories from some excellent beta readers, and I think I have some idea what I need to do next. But then I remind myself that I'm not working on that project this year, so it may be time to start a new story instead.<\/p>\n<p>I need to buy a new notebook. And maybe a new pen...<\/p>\n<p><BR>Oh, and Jo Eberhardt wrote an excellent post called, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/thehappylogophile.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/20\/writing-about-sex-religion-and-politics\/\">Writing about Sex, Religion and Politics<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3465&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3465&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s some news, on a couple of fronts. I&#8217;m not one-third of the way through Against the Day. If I was reading it in hard copy, around 350 pages. So far, I have no idea where it&#8217;s going and, frankly, no idea if it&#8217;s going anywhere at all. There&#8217;s a lot of interesting stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-pynchon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}