{"id":9381,"date":"2023-05-05T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2023-05-11T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:54:24","slug":"the-writing-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-writing-grotto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>We&#8217;re excited to announce the newest addition to our fleet of writing locations. We&#8217;ve spoken in the past of our Writing Cave, and our Auxiliary Writing Cave, and now we&#8217;re excited to be posting our first blog entry from our Writing Grotto. Oo la la! How fancy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9424\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/shmallowz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/shmallowz.jpg 838w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/shmallowz-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/shmallowz-768x660.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Writing Grotto is outside, and features a fire pit. We foolishly thought we would be able to have a work session there, with full productivity from both of us. It didn&#8217;t work out that way. First we had to make s&#8217;mores, and then we had to throw the ball for our canine overlords Lady Marzipan and the Bandit Lord. There was a brief interlude where we negotiated the peace between the dogs and a big fluffy orange neighbor cat who sauntered across Lady Marzipan&#8217;s realm.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s what fire does to Kent. Tending an actual wood fire scratches some deep caveman itch. It hypnotizes him in a way that the gas fire in the the Auxiliary Cave does not, and if you&#8217;re not careful he starts to wax philosophical about it. Or maybe that&#8217;s just the Golden Monkey talking.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re planning to spend more time in the Writing Grotto as the weather gets warmer, and we hope that we&#8217;ll equilibrate to it and actually be able to get some work done there despite the myriad distractions.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is one who will tell you when you have marshmallow goo stuck to your chin. A good one won&#8217;t even laugh about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce the newest addition to our fleet of writing locations. We&#8217;ve spoken in the past of our Writing Cave, and our Auxiliary Writing Cave, and now we&#8217;re excited to be posting our first blog entry from our Writing Grotto. Oo la la! How fancy! The Writing Grotto is outside, and features a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-field-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9425,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/9425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}