{"id":559,"date":"2009-07-06T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-07-06T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:52:09","slug":"a-book-update-sort-of-and-a-funny-video-just-for-the-heck-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"A book update, sort of, and a funny video just for the heck of it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the book news is more of a tease than a real update.\u00a0 My editor sent me the &#8220;concept&#8221; that they&#8217;re working on for my book cover (awesome!) as well as the artist they&#8217;d like to work with.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t know yet if he&#8217;ll be available when they need him, but I really hope he can fit my book into his schedule.\u00a0 He would be a <em>perfect<\/em> fit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s way too early to go into details about either the concept or the artist (either or both could easily change) but I&#8217;m super excited, and this here blog is the roof from which I can yawp.\u00a0 So, YAWP!<\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<p>And now, the video.\u00a0 You know, I love how YouTube let&#8217;s me know exactly how far behind the curve I am.\u00a0 For example, I know that tens of millions of people saw this video before I did, as did my friend, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/breebiesingerdespain.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/because-im-cranky-as-h-e-double-hockey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bree, who posted it to her blog<\/a><\/span> just yesterday (thanks, Bree.\u00a0 It made my day).<\/p>\n<p>The cost of taking your son to the dentist: well, that depends on your insurance<\/p>\n<p>Filming your son while he&#8217;s high as a kite on dentist drugs: priceless<\/p>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the book news is more of a tease than a real update.\u00a0 My editor sent me the &#8220;concept&#8221; that they&#8217;re working on for my book cover (awesome!) as well as the artist they&#8217;d like to work with.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t know yet if he&#8217;ll be available when they need him, but I really hope he [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-miscellaneous","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}