{"id":4143,"date":"2014-01-02T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T01:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2014-01-02T09:52:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T01:52:32","slug":"half-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2014\/01\/02\/half-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m turning 50 today. Spent yesterday feeling very unwell, suffering from vertigo and it&#8217;s unpleasant symptoms. Today is improved, if not perfect. I&#8217;m hoping to spend a pleasant day with family, \u00c2\u00a0keeping it all very low key and relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>I have been away from this journal for too long, and for much longer than I&#8217;d intended. Looking back, the posts for 2013 have amounted to a few news announcements, podcast episode releases, and some whining about stuff. I&#8217;m hopeful I can do more than that in 2014. \u00c2\u00a0While I have no intention of making New Year resolutions, especially about writing here, I do hope to be a more regular presence in coming months. Not only do I have some publishing projects coming up, but I am keen to put my toe back in the water reviewing. \u00c2\u00a0As a run up to possible other things, I&#8217;m going to try to review short fiction here semi-regularly. Not sure if I well, but let&#8217;s see.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, my sincere thanks to everyone for their birthday wishes. They&#8217;re very much appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m turning 50 today. Spent yesterday feeling very unwell, suffering from vertigo and it&#8217;s unpleasant symptoms. Today is improved, if not perfect. I&#8217;m hoping to spend a pleasant day with family, \u00c2\u00a0keeping it all very low key and relaxed. I have been away from this journal for too long, and for much longer than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2014\/01\/02\/half-a-century\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Half a century<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","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\/4143","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}