{"id":174,"date":"2012-04-30T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2012-04-30T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:21:41","slug":"final-edits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Final (?) Edits"},"content":{"rendered":"      <p>My publisher sent me the latest round of edits for Big in Japan&#8211;and there&#8217;s hope this will be the last. I&#8217;m poring over the lines, looking for typos and flubs, and I can start to feel the energy of this-book-is-really-going-to-be-in-print! The MS is 322 pages in Word, and I&#8217;m on page 133 of this read-through, hoping to get to page 200 by this afternoon. Of course, there are distractions, like making strawberry jam (berries were 99-cents\/pound this morning, and I&#8217;m running low in my freezer) and the five loads of laundry and needing to pay bills (where in the HECK is my checkbook?)<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I&#8217;m pressing forward. Here&#8217;s hoping my eyes are like eagles&#8217; eyes and I can spot any and all remaining errors in the text. And here&#8217;s hoping I don&#8217;t eat too many of the strawberries before I can turn them into jam.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3330\/4638249157_985edcba20_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Strawberry Freezer Jam\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3330\/4638249157_985edcba20_z.jpg?resize=397%2C335\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isn&#39;t it Pretty?<\/p><\/div>\n\n      <div data-chorus-discovery data-url=\"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=174\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My publisher sent me the latest round of edits for Big in Japan&#8211;and there&#8217;s hope this will be the last. I&#8217;m poring over the lines, looking for typos and flubs, and I can start to feel the energy of this-book-is-really-going-to-be-in-print! The MS is 322 pages in Word, and I&#8217;m on page 133 of this read-through, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[4,6,5],"tags":[764,53,22,54,52,766,765],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-in-japan","category-sumo-novel","category-writing","tag-big-in-japan","tag-edits","tag-housework","tag-proofreading","tag-strawberry-freezer-jam","tag-sumo-novel","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OUjT-2O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}