{"id":10053,"date":"2016-07-25T20:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:07:34","slug":"stoking-the-fire-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10053","title":{"rendered":"Stoking the Fire Anew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I wrote on my blog. The new press, health issues\u2026and humanity looking like it\u2019s about to go into one of its periodic regressive jags. I thought a few times, why not stop altogether? The launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.candlemarkandgleam.com\/shop\/to-shape-the-dark\/\"><em>To Shape the Dark<\/em><\/a> would serve as a good full stop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New-Moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New-Moon.jpg\" alt=\"New Moon\" width=\"435\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New-Moon.jpg 540w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New-Moon-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then I experience small pleasures that make me want to talk to the world again. Watching the double hybiscus spread its silken apricot blossoms; reading Eleanor Arnason\u2019s <em>Hwarhath Stories<\/em>; seeing Mars glitter like a ruby on black damask; anticipating seeing <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, even though I detest the reboot universe; surprising a young rabbit warily chewing the parsley in a neighbor\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m back to dreaming on the page again. Not fast, not easily\u2026but the story of the launch of the <em>Reckless<\/em> is slowly rising from the mists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I wrote on my blog. The new press, health issues\u2026and humanity looking like it\u2019s about to go into one of its periodic regressive jags. I thought a few times, why not stop altogether? The launch of To Shape the Dark would serve as a good full stop. But then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}