{"id":476,"date":"2007-12-17T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T18:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/merry-x-and-great-8\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:00:44","slug":"merry-x-and-great-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/merry-x-and-great-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry X and Great 8!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/giantshead2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just about finished my latest painting, \u201cGiant\u2019s Head.\u201d\u009d   A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about  <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity\/\"> climbing to the site <\/a>in Castle Rock park.  I might touch up the clinging hand one more time.  Maybe the painter is falling off!  I really was kind of scared on that rock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/lgwintertreebloom.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t be blogging much more till January.  The holiday rush, etc.  We repainted my office and I\u2019m still rearranging and moving stuff.<\/p>\n<p>In my free time, I\u2019m revising the earlier chapters of <em>Hylozoic<\/em>.  It\u2019s incredible how much time it takes to do a revision.  The rereading goes very slowly, as does the typing in of the changes I write on the printout.  I have to think a lot, weighing the options.<\/p>\n<p>And I still have to figure out the ending.  A lot of this is subconscious.  Like a chess computer playing out a very large number of possible endgames.  My favorite way to work subconsciously is to get out and walk in the woods!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/lgwinterpalm.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, all the best from California &#8212; have a Merry X and a Great 8!<\/p>\n<p>And may all your eights be lazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just about finished my latest painting, \u201cGiant\u2019s Head.\u201d\u009d A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about climbing to the site in Castle Rock park. I might touch up the clinging hand one more time. Maybe the painter is falling off! I really was kind of scared on that rock. I won\u2019t be blogging much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}