{"id":1,"date":"2010-06-04T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-07-29T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:40:34","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"A New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>I've realized that aside from the books themselves, my life is on an interesting path new writers as well as my readers may find interesting. As a freshly published novelist, less than a year out, I'm learning a lot by watching those ahead of me on the road.\u00a0 The biggest lesson so far -- calm down, take a deep breath, and look around.\u00a0 See where you are, figure out where you want to be, point yourself in that direction and start walking.\u00a0 It's good advice going into a convention center, onto a stage, or just life.<\/p>\n<p>No more over-thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to let my instincts guide me as I write the third novel, and as I deal with major changes in my life over the last year.\u00a0 They got me this far, as I try to remind myself.\u00a0 They can get me to the next step, if I am clear on what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've realized that aside from the books themselves, my life is on an interesting path new writers as well as my readers may find interesting... <a href=\"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/?p=1\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testaments-blog-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doyoubelieveinvampires.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}