{"id":581,"date":"2023-01-06T22:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/?p=581"},"modified":"2023-01-06T22:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:31:25","slug":"2023-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/06\/2023-is-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 is upon us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Happy New Year! There was a free Christmas story on the mailing list in December, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Settling into January, working on Keeley #6, Shamus & Shifter <\/em>– currently at 43K of about 55K. It’s up for preorder<\/a> at the end of March. I’m planning to have the book finished, edited, and out to beta by the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Male grosbeak on the lilac bush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A flock of grosbeaks has been hanging around lately. They’re really the only bright-colored birds we have here in the winter – males are red, females yellow. It’s nice to look out and see those little splashes of color. I have a chickadee feeder, but the larger birds can’t get into it (essentially as a squirrel-defense measure). I’m thinking about getting a larger tray-style one to encourage the grosbeaks to keep coming back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moon from the upstairs window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our days are incredibly short here – daylight by 10 or 11, dark by 3 or 4 – but with the solstice behind us, they’re getting longer. Spring still feels very far away. This is the time of year when I daydream about gardens and traveling to warm, sunny places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! There was a free Christmas story on the mailing list in December, which you can read here. Settling into January, working on Keeley #6, Shamus & Shifter – currently at 43K of about 55K. It’s up for preorder at the end of March. I’m planning to have the book finished, edited, and … Continue reading “2023 is upon us”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alaska","category-photos","category-state-of-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}