{"id":5429,"date":"2014-12-14T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T06:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2014-12-14T06:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T06:57:42","slug":"christmas-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=5429","title":{"rendered":"Christmas part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novelists don&#8217;t get out much. We spend a lot of our time on our writing place, talking to imaginary people in our head. So when we do get out and get to spend time with real people &#8211; we talk a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I just talk a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My second week of Christmas was marked by lunch with another group of writer friends &#8211; the ladies of the Reading chapter of the RNA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5430\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5430\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-photo.jpg\" alt=\"No - it's not just me. we all talk a lot.\" width=\"450\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No &#8211; it&#8217;s not just me. we all talk a lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During any year, I can be found with\u00a0several different groups of writers &#8211; and each group is different. Some groups are very informative and hold workshops and serious discussions. Other groups just chat &#8211; about books and writing and &#8230; whatever.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter &#8211; its all about being friends, supporting each other\u00a0and sharing the journey.<\/p>\n<p>So to all the ladies in the photos below &#8211; I just want to say thank you for your friendship and advice and support and good cheer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I love you all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5431\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-1.jpg\" alt=\"reading 1\" width=\"450\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5432\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-2.jpg\" alt=\"reading 2\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5433\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-3.jpg\" alt=\"reading 3\" width=\"450\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5434\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/reading-5.jpg\" alt=\"reading 5\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelists don&#8217;t get out much. We spend a lot of our time on our writing place, talking to imaginary people in our head. So when we do get out and get to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-1pz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}