{"id":124,"date":"2004-10-10T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=124"},"modified":"2004-10-10T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T13:46:00","slug":"im-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2004\/10\/10\/im-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a writer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think. Today my first-ever column has been published in the paper \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m so freaking excited I could just spit. I&#8217;m already planning to buy a scrapbook and extra copies to send to friends and relatives. How sad is that? Hehehe.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s just a small city newspaper and I know the column is buried in the bowels of the Sunday paper in the &#8216;Stay Tuned&#8217; TV listings section but damnit, that&#8217;s my name in glorious Times New Roman black ink that rubs off on your fingers. Those are my words in print that 50,000 people in and around my city might read.<\/p>\n<p>*spit*<\/p>\n<p>Man oh man. I&#8217;m going to work tomorrow with a huge grin plastered all over my face. I know no one there will think it&#8217;s a big deal. I&#8217;m sure everyone there at one time or another has been published in the paper. I&#8217;m not quite sure why this feels like such a huge deal to me, but it does and I like the feeling.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;d better get cracking on my next one \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think. Today my first-ever column has been published in the paper \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m so freaking excited I could just spit. I&#8217;m already planning to buy a scrapbook and extra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}