{"id":661,"date":"2009-09-28T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.wordpress.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:26","slug":"happy-anniversary-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/happy-anniversary-to-me","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary To Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-662 alignright\" title=\"Wyoming Solace by Alanna Coca\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/wyoming-solace-by-alanna-coca.jpg?w=97\" alt=\"Wyoming Solace by Alanna Coca\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" \/>September 28th, 2008 I signed my first contract with Liquid Silver Books. It&#8217;s been one hell of a year. I&#8217;ve learned so much! I can certainly see my growth from book to book. Each one I write ends up being my favorite,\u00c2\u00a0so now I have to say that it&#8217;s my favorite &#8220;so far&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wyoming Solace<\/strong>. My baby. My firstborn. I started writing this story back in 1990. Yeah, I know. I did the math. :p I didn&#8217;t write faithfully, or even consistently. My editor at the time Deanna Pryce spent a lot of time with me, and broke me of a lot of bad habits. One of my early issues was the overuse of adverbs. My final editing project was to search for the ending -ly and hack them in half. Some sentences had two and three in there! So I like to describe things, okay!?<\/p>\n<p>One year, and five books. I think that calls for some blackberry brandy.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 28th, 2008 I signed my first contract with Liquid Silver Books. It&#8217;s been one hell of a year. I&#8217;ve learned so much! I can certainly see my growth from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,19,21],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-aF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}