{"id":306,"date":"2003-08-21T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/08\/21\/106148259797998573\/"},"modified":"2003-08-21T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2003-08-21T17:10:13","slug":"106148259797998573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/21\/106148259797998573\/","title":{"rendered":"106148259797998573"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A writer&rsquo;s challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the last week or so, the guy that does the maintenance on my building has been sanding the iron balconies to prevent them from rusting. Today he&rsquo;s got a friend with him and they have started the painting job. Here&rsquo;s what I see as I&rsquo;m sitting at my desk, trying to finish the first draft of the screenplay I&rsquo;m working on.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/reno_guys_small.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"222\" ALT=\"boxers or briefs?\"><\/p>\n<p>One of them is singing: &laquo; Tout, tout, tout, vous saurez tout sur le zizi&#8230; &raquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Concentrate, Martine, concentrate&#8230; Keep staring at your computer. Good girl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer&rsquo;s challenge For the last week or so, the guy that does the maintenance on my building has been sanding the iron balconies to prevent them from rusting. Today he&rsquo;s got a friend with him and they have started the painting job. Here&rsquo;s what I see as I&rsquo;m sitting at my desk, trying to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/21\/106148259797998573\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">106148259797998573<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}