{"id":294,"date":"2012-06-25T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2012-06-25T08:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:34:43","slug":"retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Retreat!"},"content":{"rendered":"      <p>I&#8217;m\u00a0so excited! This week is the annual <a title=\"This is my awesome writers group!\" href=\"http:\/\/anwa-lds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ANWA<\/a> Writers Retreat in the cool country of the mountains of Arizona. This is my fourth year attending. We&#8217;re staying at a nice cabin, about 30 of us, shutting out the world and <em>just writing. <\/em>Last year I used the 3 days away from the responsibilities of home to complete a rewrite of BIG IN JAPAN. This year I&#8217;m planning to plow through 100 pp of\u00a0my rewrite of my art novel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to be with like-minded people, to be around women who totally understand the obsession to immerse in a laptop screen and simply type words upon words hour after hour.<\/p>\n<p>I hope all the women who go this year accomplish their retreat goals&#8211;and that they set them high!<\/p>\n<p>Plus, since it&#8217;s 111 degrees here, I hope we get a reprieve from this infernal heat. Bleah. Seriously? 111 degrees? Come ON. Bring on the monsoon season, already. Send us some <em>rain!<\/em><\/p>\n\n      <div data-chorus-discovery data-url=\"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=294\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m\u00a0so excited! This week is the annual ANWA Writers Retreat in the cool country of the mountains of Arizona. This is my fourth year attending. We&#8217;re staying at a nice cabin, about 30 of us, shutting out the world and just writing. Last year I used the 3 days away from the responsibilities of home [&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":[5],"tags":[36,764,150,45,110,149,151],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-anwa","tag-big-in-japan","tag-heat","tag-jennifer-griffith","tag-rewrites","tag-writers-retreat","tag-writing-goals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2OUjT-retreat","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}