{"id":3068,"date":"2008-11-30T20:15:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2008-11-30T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:07:44","slug":"the-start-of-a-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/30\/the-start-of-a-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"The start of a masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want to write books and make them all myself.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I want to do when I grow up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So announces Will toward the end of the trip back from Mobile.\u00c2\u00a0 He makes the declaration while producing the Ipod touch, where he has been typing for a solid hour&#8230; or so it seems.\u00c2\u00a0 It did not read like Hamlet, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that three monkeys with typewriters could have re-produced it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s great, Will&#8221; we said.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul added that I could help him write and make illustrations, that I was in to that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, Will,&#8221; I added, &#8220;I&#8217;ve kind of been writing a book online for the past 4 years&#8230; on The Blog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been writing a long time, too, Mommy.\u00c2\u00a0 Since we left Granna and PapPap&#8217;s house&#8230; a REALLY long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>When we got home, Will asked to start his book.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what he wrote and drew.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3070\" title=\"willart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/willart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/willart.jpg 1650w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/willart-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not to be left out of the fun, Kate made a picture, too:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3069\" title=\"kateart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kateart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kateart.jpg 1276w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kateart-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want to write books and make them all myself.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I want to do when I grow up.&#8221; So announces Will toward the end of the trip back from Mobile.\u00c2\u00a0 He makes the declaration while producing the Ipod touch, where he has been typing for a solid hour&#8230; or so it seems.\u00c2\u00a0 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[84,108,128,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}