{"id":722,"date":"2013-06-22T20:52:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T19:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/?p=722"},"modified":"2013-06-22T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T19:55:27","slug":"lifes-an-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/2013\/06\/22\/lifes-an-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s an education &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rapidly coming to the end of &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/journal\/annexe\/Snooker.htm\" title=\"The Game of Snooker\">&#8216;The Game of Snooker&#8217;<\/a>,&nbsp; the latest addition to my &#8216;Annexe&#8217; series. What started off as 3 chapters, rapidly grew to 6. The characters developed a life of their own, and virtually wrote the story. I felt more like their biographer!<\/p>\n<p>The twists and turns came as a natural consequence of the story. I try, really hard, to make a story consistent, and while I enjoy surprises, I do not wish to inflict inexplicable surprises on the reader, just to move the story along. I&#8217;m sure that the reader will tell me if I get it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I have become inordinately fond of the fearsome &#8216;Penelope Pillan&#8217;, and I just know that she will return in a later story. Her doing &#8211; not mine! Are all authors just a little bit crazy? Or a lot?<\/p>\n<p>The title comes from one of the Odd Poems &#8211; &#8216;Life Sentences&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>Life&#8217;s an education, so it is!<br \/>\n And a teacher on the subject<br \/>\n would be great.<br \/>\n I&#8217;ve watched the highest, and the low,<br \/>\n the smartest and the slow,<br \/>\n and sat beside the madmen<br \/>\n as they drove.<br \/>\n No matter how we strive,<br \/>\n No one gets out whilst alive.<br \/>\n So enjoy it till you feel the hand of fate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Back to the salt mines.<br \/>\nMesklin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rapidly coming to the end of &nbsp; &#8216;The Game of Snooker&#8217;,&nbsp; the latest addition to my &#8216;Annexe&#8217; series. What started off as 3 chapters, rapidly grew to 6. The characters developed a life of their own, and virtually wrote the story. I felt more like their biographer!<\/p>\n<p>The twists and turns came as a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","category-tachras","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}