{"id":29,"date":"2010-06-14T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-06-14T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T23:10:27","slug":"its-that-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s that time of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well once again summer has fallen upon us and the sweet southern air has been\u00a0bogged down\u00a0with\u00a0moisture,\u00a0while the sun&#8217;s\u00a0 unmerciful rays\u00a0sizzle down\u00a0\u00a0baking us all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One can only stay in their pool for so long.&#8221;\u00a0 My husband\u00a0yells\u00a0at\u00a0me.<\/p>\n<p>Learning\u00a0well from our children, I choose to \u00a0ignore\u00a0his statement.\u00a0 I close my eyes, lay my head back\u00a0and let the coolness of the water do it&#8217;s duty.\u00a0I have only a few days left to contend with the heat, as we will be loading up our\u00a0mountain dog and\u00a0our hemingway cat. The car will be packed full and we will be happily heading for the Mountains,\u00a0 where the air is cool,\u00a0elevating our senses and\u00a0thus providing us with a\u00a0renewed sense of energy. I call this little piece of\u00a0heaven our spa and believe me when I say It&#8217;s well needed.\u00a0Life has been in overdrive and\u00a0we have been rearing up the engines for\u00a0my release of &#8220;Once Wicked Always Dead&#8221;\u00a0The response\u00a0has been overwhelming and the\u00a0huge demand\u00a0for my\u00a0Galleys have left me with only empty boxes at the warehouse.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On a good note; due to the positive respond that\u00a0we have had with all of the\u00a0book sellers,\u00a0we will be increasing the first printing by thousands. So with that being said I will be on my way, but\u00a0before I\u00a0go I must tell you\u00a0about the\u00a0little\u00a0promise that\u00a0I made\u00a0to\u00a0our children when I was at a weak moment. ( I swear they have a sixth sense in knowing the perfect time when\u00a0to hit me up for what they desire.)\u00a0This\u00a0has been\u00a0something that they have always wanted to do with me for a long time\u00a0and with their constant begging,\u00a0I had no choice but to give in.\u00a0What might this request be? Well all I can say for now, is that it has something to do with me jumping\u00a0out&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Well maybe it will be better if I just wait and tell you\u00a0after I do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well once again summer has fallen upon us and the sweet southern air has been\u00a0bogged down\u00a0with\u00a0moisture,\u00a0while the sun&#8217;s\u00a0 unmerciful rays\u00a0sizzle down\u00a0\u00a0baking us all. &#8220;One can only stay in their pool for so long.&#8221;\u00a0 My husband\u00a0yells\u00a0at\u00a0me. Learning\u00a0well from our children, I choose to \u00a0ignore\u00a0his statement.\u00a0 I close my eyes, lay my head back\u00a0and let the coolness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmariebenchley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}