{"id":759,"date":"2014-06-20T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=759"},"modified":"2014-06-20T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T13:13:16","slug":"butterfly-a-book-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/butterfly-a-book-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly, a Book Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it was one of those “hey, why don’t you?” kind of moments. My wife and dedicated First Reader said to me, after the first fifty pages, “Why don’t you make a book trailer?”<\/p>\n

She explained the pieces she thought would make the cut and I agreed.<\/p>\n

\"Butterfly,<\/a>
Butterfly, a book trailer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few months later, she repeated the same thing. The book received more editing, more pages were laid down. She was speaking to me through a little food and mail slot in the heavy iron door, behind which I sat. I agreed.<\/p>\n

Months more passed. Seasons changed. The book was finished<\/a>. My beard was matted and home to a small family of squirrels. Again came the refrain through the food slot: “You should make a book trailer.” Again I agreed. “But,” I said, “first let me send it out to a publisher and an agent.”<\/p>\n

The heavy iron door burst open.\u00c2\u00a0The bricks shook and chalk dust from my rudimentary calendar on the wall rained down on what I was embarrassed to find were chicken and possibly mice bones in the corner of my writing room. “You\u00c2\u00a0need<\/em><\/strong> to make a book trailer,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Oh,” I said. “You mean\u00c2\u00a0now<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

“And a book website.”<\/p>\n

“Oh.”<\/p>\n

And so I did. I present to you: Butterfly, a book trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it was one of those “hey, why don’t you?” kind of moments. My wife and dedicated First Reader said to me, after the first fifty pages, “Why don’t you make a book trailer?” She explained the pieces she thought would make the cut and I agreed. A few months later, she repeated the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}