{"id":1360,"date":"2010-09-16T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:05","slug":"congratulations-lady-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Lady Jane!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/TJIkUVA-XII\/AAAAAAAAB2Y\/1H5Xu-OLdv0\/s1600\/janep1.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/janep1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who&#8217;s really counting? Maybe in 10 years. Maybe if I live long enough. Maybe if I still have a head that works in old age. Maybe if I can just, following the Asimov model, type faster.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 align=left src=\"\">How did I miss it? As of yesterday, when the piece showed up in the Huffington Post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jane-yolen\/jane-yolen-writes-300th-b_b_715329.html\" target= _blank>Our Jane<\/a> has written her <i>three hundredth book<\/i>.<br \/>Three hundred. That&#8217;s a three, two zeros. 300.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect she did not do it by futzing around on the internet much of the day. Which means I&#8217;m going to stop typing this in a couple of sentences and get back to work. But &#8212; three hundred. It&#8217;s a staggering, gobsmacking amount. Poetry. Picture books. Chapter books. Novels. Three hundred books.<\/p>\n<p>And she remembers them all, of course.<\/p>\n<p>::sigh::<br \/>However did she do it? Butt in chair, obviously.<br \/>BIC.<br \/>Back to work, kids.<\/p>\n<p>x-posted (with much more rambling) @ <a href=\"http:\/\/tanitasdavis.com\/wp\/?p=2524\" target= _blank>tanita&#8217;s blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who&#8217;s really counting? Maybe in 10 years. Maybe if I live long&#8230;<\/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":[15],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}