{"id":623,"date":"2011-12-04T23:32:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T05:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-12-06T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:21:04","slug":"new-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/new-days\/","title":{"rendered":"New Day(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton623\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-days%2F&amp;text=New%20Day%28s%29&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-days%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/new-days\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>It&#8217;s appropriate that I&#8217;m typing this at (as of this place in the sentence) exactly 12:01AM. If you&#8217;ve been to this site before, you may be wondering where some of the posts are*. The short answer is, they&#8217;re elsewhere for now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m repositioning this site to feature a regular series of lively, opinionated posts on fiction writing in specific and creativity in general. These will be adapted from lectures I&#8217;ve done for UCLA Extension and in my Westport Writers&#8217; Workshop classes, as well as &#8220;phantom lectures&#8221; that have, until now, existed only inside my cold, bald skull. I want these posts to be of use to fiction writers &#8212; I&#8217;ve taught a lot of different students in a lot of workshops over the last two-and-a-half years &#8212; but also, perhaps, to anyone interested in applying creativity to their lives. Nearly any job you can think of either requires creativity, or would sure as hell benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>I still love writing about music, books, and quality television, and will soon be announcing a new Tumblr devoted to those things. You can also still follow me on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/debenham\" target=\"_blank\">@Debenham<\/a>, though I&#8217;ll be removing that feed from this site in an effort to keep it looking somewhat classy around here. Nothing worse than going to someone&#8217;s site and seeing some drunken 2AM Twitter update blaring from the top of the page: &#8220;@ballsface you wer fukin crazy 2nite! LOL!&#8221; (P.S., I wrote that knowing full well there <em>must<\/em> be an actual @ballsface on Twitter. I&#8217;m scared to look, but the odds are pretty overwhelming, right?)<\/p>\n<p>So: Onward and upward. New posts twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. Thanks for being here!<\/p>\n<p>Hugs &amp; kisses,<\/p>\n<p>Matty<\/p>\n<p>* If you haven&#8217;t been here before, then you won&#8217;t have missed any of the old posts, and\u00a0<em>this<\/em> post will simply look like a cleverly disguised version of the most common blog post in the world, the &#8220;I sure haven&#8217;t posted in a long time!&#8221; post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton623\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-days%2F&amp;text=New%20Day%28s%29&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-days%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>New things to come! Old things deleted, perhaps in haste! Some changes are afoot, hombre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}