{"id":353,"date":"2008-02-05T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=353"},"modified":"2008-02-05T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:48:00","slug":"quick-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Quick Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more updates under cut--><\/p>\n<p>My dad is back home with a clean bill of health. He had just about every test imaginable, including a CT scan, I think&#8211;he said MRI but he had to drink yucky stuff which is usually a CT scan&#8211;at 2:00am! This was not because it was a crisis, this was because the hospital was so jammed with people that Radiology was running 24\/7 and every possible space that could have a bed or gurney had one. Dad spent 36 straight hours in the ER because no room ever became available to admit him!<\/p>\n<p>Official diagnosis was a bout of acute pancreatitis, cause unknown (negative for gallstones, although he had a classic gallstone attack). I went down and picked him up at about 5:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I sold an article to the Broad Universe <i>Broadsheet<\/i>, an online magazine (that is picked up by <i>Locus Online<\/i>). A whole $25, whee! I mailed the contract back today. Broad Universe is an organization for women SF\/F\/H writers and I did a piece about &#8220;writing the vampire novel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alas, that&#8217;s not enough pay to qualify the article toward membership in Horror Writers Association (which accepts non-fiction toward its membership qualification). I&#8217;m still trying to think of a good topic for <i>The Fortean Times!<\/i><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}