{"id":99,"date":"2013-01-17T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/?p=99"},"modified":"2013-01-28T02:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:29:58","slug":"final-proof-and-poof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/final-proof-and-poof\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Proof, and Poof!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final proof copy just arrived and it looked as expected, so I approved it for publication and . . . \u00a0The Mountain School<\/em> is now alive on Amazon<\/a>. It’s out of my hands.<\/p>\n

There’s this moment that I’ll never get back, this moment right now when I’m the only one with the book, and I know what it contains and why I wrote it. Nonetheless, it’s been that way for years. I no longer want to keep it to myself. I’m so eager to get it into your hands, and to hear what you think it contains and why I have written it.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final proof copy just arrived and it looked as expected, so I approved it for publication and . . . \u00a0The Mountain School is now alive on Amazon. It’s out of my hands. There’s this moment that I’ll never get back, this moment right now when I’m the only one with the book, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8huLi-1B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63,"url":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/paper-makes-the-mistakes-pop\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":0},"title":"Paper Makes the Mistakes Pop","author":"Greg Alder","date":"January 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I had edited the manuscript innumerable times -- spellchecked, considered grammar, etc -- but when I got the proof copy in the mail little errors popped up all over the pages. 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