{"id":5989,"date":"2024-03-20T17:08:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:08:23","slug":"forts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/forts\/","title":{"rendered":"Forts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1-300x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1-300x329.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1-450x493.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1-768x841.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1-1402x1536.jpg 1402w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1-1869x2048.jpg 1869w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1-250x274.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1935-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Remember forts?<br \/>\nThey turn any ordinary<br \/>\nday into a secret lair.<br \/>\nThe constructing is fun<br \/>\nenough, but then you add<br \/>\nthe sensation of crawling<br \/>\ninside and seeing that space,<br \/>\nthat volume under the dipping<br \/>\nblankets and you have your<br \/>\nown magical realm. Writing<br \/>\na novel is a lot like building a<br \/>\nfort and holing up inside.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s fragile, tippy, dark,<br \/>\nand a little too warm in there.<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s all yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember forts? They turn any ordinary day into a secret lair. The constructing is fun enough, but then you add the sensation of crawling inside and seeing that space, that volume under the dipping blankets and you have your own magical realm. Writing a novel is a lot like building a fort and holing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthmarked","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5994,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}