{"id":4533,"date":"2016-04-04T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T22:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2016-04-04T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T22:39:36","slug":"questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/questions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4534\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_6263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4534\" class=\"wp-image-4534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_6263.jpg\" alt=\"View of the Pacific from Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, March 2016\" width=\"330\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_6263.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_6263-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_6263-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_6263-250x333.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the Pacific from Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, CA, March 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though I still have a long way to go with revising the third book in the Vault of Dreamers series, I&#8217;m starting to think about ideas for what might come afterward. I\u2019m facing a wide-open horizon, with potential everywhere I look. It\u2019s unnerving to have so much uncertainty before me. Part of me is tempted to lock onto an idea just so I can have something solid and sure.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m resisting that urge, though, because when I consider investing deeply in another world and new characters,\u00a0I don&#8217;t want to jump too soon off the wrong cliff.<\/p>\n<p>My husband and I have been spending some time in California, where every time I turn a corner, I encounter new vistas and people. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know yet which ideas will matter most, or how they might come together. \u00a0What I do know is that I&#8217;m living in the moment more and stressing less. I\u2019m collecting ideas and nudging them. I\u2019m asking questions, not answering them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That feels right, for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I still have a long way to go with revising the third book in the Vault of Dreamers series, I&#8217;m starting to think about ideas for what might come afterward. I\u2019m facing a wide-open horizon, with potential everywhere I look. It\u2019s unnerving to have so much uncertainty before me. Part of me is tempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}