{"id":362,"date":"2010-09-16T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T17:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2010-09-16T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T17:58:54","slug":"when-something-works-its-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/when-something-works-its-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"When something works, it&#039;s magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m constantly amazed and glad at how rethinking and resequencing can make all the difference in the world. Yesterday I started doodling, hoping inspiration would hit me because I had no idea how I was going to rescue the latest chapter. It was so A, B, C, then D and completely lacked any real impact. I was left thinking, &#8220;what&#8217;s the point of the chapter?&#8221; and that is a sure sign of a needed cut.<\/p>\n<p>Today, despite some smart assed Leprechaun pounding away with his pointy little pickax inside my skull, I managed to turn the chapter around, and now the chapter hits exactly the way I wanted it to.<\/p>\n<p>I still need to tweak the part where the Saudi started shooting at me on the beach and when another Saudi tried to get me into his car with promises of &#8220;a good time&#8221;, but the flow and content of the chapter is about as perfect as it&#8217;s going to get. Well, until tomorrow at least. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m constantly amazed and glad at how rethinking and resequencing can make all the difference in the world. Yesterday I started doodling, hoping inspiration would hit me because I had no idea how I was going to rescue the latest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/when-something-works-its-magic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}