{"id":37478,"date":"2019-12-31T16:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37478"},"modified":"2020-03-17T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T17:15:52","slug":"the-year-of-few-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37478","title":{"rendered":"The Year of Few Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Fates-Cover-v2-Fin-SM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-37484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Fates-Cover-v2-Fin-SM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Fates-Cover-v2-Fin-SM.jpg 600w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Fates-Cover-v2-Fin-SM-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>It has been a busier-than-usual year, and the blog fell by the wayside back in April &#8212; though I intend to remedy that in 2020, regardless of who still reads it.\u00a0 The Starship Reckless site also had to go through a major mandatory update of its PHP which necessitated a huge amount of invisible but demanding tinkering (my heartfelt thanks to Carlos Ramirez, whose formidable skill and meticulous care made a perfect transition possible).<\/p>\n<p>Because this year is also the end of a decade, people are doing lengthy reviews.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t do that. <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Instead I&#8217;ll share a post by one of the authors of my tiny press, Christine Lucas, whose haunting collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.candlemarkandgleam.com\/shop\/fates-and-furies\/\"><em>Fates and Furies<\/em><\/a> just appeared. It&#8217;s all there: the dreaming and striving that make or move worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/werecat99.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/31\/goodbye-2019-and-thanks-for-all-the-stories\/\">Goodbye, 2019, and thanks for all the stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Warmth and comfort are yokes for us.<br \/>\nWe chose thorns, shoals and starlight.<br \/>\nWe vowed ourselves irrevocably to battle.<br \/>\nWe will die exiles, mercenaries to strangers,<br \/>\nHaving seen and dreamed imperishable beauty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Athena Andreadis, &#8220;Mid-Journey&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busier-than-usual year, and the blog fell by the wayside back in April &#8212; though I intend to remedy that in 2020, regardless of who still reads it.\u00a0 The Starship Reckless site also had to go through a major mandatory update of its PHP which necessitated a huge amount of invisible but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13,7],"tags":[227,228,232,229,230,231,156],"class_list":["post-37478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-science-fiction","category-writing-and-literature","tag-annual-reckoning","tag-christine-lucas","tag-dreaming","tag-fates-and-furies","tag-mid-journey","tag-spirit","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37478","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=37478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}