{"id":1513,"date":"2009-01-02T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2009\/01\/02\/january-so-far\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T13:00:22","slug":"january-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2009\/01\/02\/january-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"January, so far&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, New Year&#8217;s Day was quiet.\u00c2\u00a0 We woke too early, with me hung over.\u00c2\u00a0 Spent the day playing with the kids, then watched to the end of <em>The Wire<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Stunning stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Woke earlyish this morning for my 45th birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 Had breakfast, did a little office work and talked to Gary while the girls were out.\u00c2\u00a0 Then got ready for a small party here at the house, just with family.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fun &#8211; a BBQ &#8211; and I got some swell gifts.<\/p>\n<p>As we were waiting on dessert, a terrible sound was heard.\u00c2\u00a0 In our beautiful new living room. The one with the brand new lounge suite and the brand new stereo. The ceiling collapsed in a pile of dust and crap.\u00c2\u00a0 There was one minor injury during clean up, but it was pretty unpleasant.\u00c2\u00a0 We now wait to see if the insurance will cover it or if we&#8217;re up for the money, and what damage exactly was done to everything.\u00c2\u00a0 I think we were reasonably lucky, but who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and yes, this means some minor delays on things and if anyone&#8217;s looking to get an anthology edited now&#8217;s a great time to ask &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, New Year&#8217;s Day was quiet.\u00c2\u00a0 We woke too early, with me hung over.\u00c2\u00a0 Spent the day playing with the kids, then watched to the end of The Wire.\u00c2\u00a0 Stunning stuff. Woke earlyish this morning for my 45th birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 Had breakfast, did a little office work and talked to Gary while the girls were out.\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2009\/01\/02\/january-so-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January, so far&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}