{"id":480,"date":"2011-01-19T21:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2011-01-19T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T03:45:07","slug":"a-blizzard-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"A Blizzard is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, I will try to vary what I write from day to day in <em>The Life Literary<\/em>.\u00a0 This being Burns Supper crunch-time, I&#8217;m afraid an even heavier Burns-ish storm than what&#8217;s already blown in this week is going to hit this site tomorrow and continue for a few more days.\u00a0 All I can say is, it won&#8217;t go on forever.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One reason I started this venture in the first place is to collect my writing, old and new, all in one place.\u00a0 A blog is weirdly temporal, time-bound in a backwards sort of way.\u00a0 Each post appears at a certain time, pushing the ones that came before it toward the rear of the line.\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t lend itself to a time like now when I have a lot to write and post in a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Another point of this blog is to collect ways of living literarily.\u00a0 One of those is hosting literary events like a Burns Supper.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to get a lot of what I have about Burns Suppers, at least what I&#8217;m preparing for this year&#8217;s event on paper in this location.\u00a0 It shows one of the realities of literary events: they require even more preparation than typical parties.\u00a0 What I&#8217;m suggesting is that they provide a unique sort of fun, give a significant uplift, and bring people together in a unique way that makes even a Burns Blizzard worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, I will try to vary what I write from day to day in The Life Literary.\u00a0 This being Burns Supper crunch-time, I&#8217;m afraid an even heavier Burns-ish storm than what&#8217;s already blown in this week is going to hit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[31,1078,1076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}