{"id":132,"date":"2013-04-11T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2013-04-11T13:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:21:25","slug":"the-kindness-of-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"The Kindness of A Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I discovered a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thelastarcher\">my Facebook page<\/a> from someone in Illinois who had read the first two books and was wondering when the next book was coming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having a difficult time recently finding the time and the inspiration to write the third book&#8211;it hasn&#8217;t come as easily as the others. I like to think that the struggle may make it better&#8211;because usually no good thing ever comes easy.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, that simple query posted on Facebook was exactly what I needed to help with my motivation; I managed to add a few hundred words late last night. \u00a0And I hope to gain some momentum and write more.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you, generous and kind reader from Illinois who took the time to not only read my books&#8211;for which I am extremely grateful&#8230; But thank you also for taking the time to contact me. You can&#8217;t begin to imagine how much your simple gesture and expression of interest served as motivation for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I discovered a post on my Facebook page from someone in Illinois who had read the first two books and was wondering when the next book was coming. I&#8217;ve been having a difficult time recently finding the time and the inspiration to write the third book&#8211;it hasn&#8217;t come as easily as the others. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}