{"id":423,"date":"2011-08-18T21:14:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T21:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/whew-busy-summer-of-writing\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:22:03","slug":"whew-busy-summer-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/whew-busy-summer-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Whew! Busy Summer of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got the last nail in two new books:  &#8220;Evil Interludes,&#8221; a compelling, fast-paced novel about a poet, Charles Baudelaire, author of the impeccable and fascinating &#8220;Flowers of Evil.&#8221;. I&#8217;ll post the titles of some good books about Baudelaire, many of which I mined for inspiration, along with my visit to an absinthe bar in San Francisco. The other book is a Cali travel journal interspersed with many prose poems called &#8220;Sipping Beer in the Shadow of God.&#8221; A big part of the journey for me was to see Yosemite again, and to attempt to get down some of the feelings that the place inspires.  I have only scratched the surface with my nib.<\/p>\n<p>My next project is a contemporary novel set in the New Jersey beach area around Long Branch and Asbury Park.  I am avidly collecting lively anecdotes.  Please share some in the comments, or by email.  Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got the last nail in two new books: &#8220;Evil Interludes,&#8221; a compelling, fast-paced novel about a poet, Charles Baudelaire, author of the impeccable and fascinating &#8220;Flowers of Evil.&#8221;. I&#8217;ll post the titles of some good books about Baudelaire, many of which I mined for inspiration, along with my visit to an absinthe bar in <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/whew-busy-summer-of-writing\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8431,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/8431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}