{"id":696,"date":"2015-06-04T23:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2015-06-04T23:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T20:10:26","slug":"lengthening-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2015\/06\/04\/lengthening-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Lengthening nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During May a lingering flu, grant applications, and other PhD work basically ate up all my energy. But now I&#8217;ve been getting into the writing groove again. I finished and submitted a story on Monday in a glorious frenzy. I submitted two more stories yesterday. I&#8217;ve been dipping my toes into poetry again. I&#8217;m pondering diving back into the novel I started in April. Before I do that, though, there&#8217;s a short story to write in Finnish for a tiny competition. Writing! Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>This summer is going to be really busy: a work trip to the UK, a folk music festival, a friend&#8217;s wedding, and a two-week summer school. Plus a load of other academic work. But despite all the work-busyness and travel, I will keep writing as much as I can. I&#8217;m super into my PhD work; but creative writing is what keeps me feeling like me, and I need to keep doing it or I&#8217;ll start feeling miserable. <\/p>\n<p>The lengthening nights are making it even more difficult for a night-owl like me to go to bed at sensible hours, but I don&#8217;t mind. Oh Finnish summer, this glorious three-month burst of sun, joy, bright nights! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During May a lingering flu, grant applications, and other PhD work basically ate up all my energy. But now I&#8217;ve been getting into the writing groove again. I finished and submitted a story on Monday in a glorious frenzy. I submitted two more stories yesterday. I&#8217;ve been dipping my toes into poetry again. I&#8217;m pondering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-babble","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}