{"id":16060,"date":"2026-01-04T02:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16060"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:54:22","slug":"reworking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16060","title":{"rendered":"Reworking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s almost 03.00 and tonight&#8217;s insomnia is biting hard but I&#8217;m not feeling very well and that&#8217;s a significant factor in being awake right now. I slept for a couple of hours but woke feeling uncomfortable (see not feeling very well). After fruitless efforts to find my way back to sleep the dogs and I got up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidenote: why is it when I get up all of the dogs need to accompany me, even if I&#8217;m only heading to the bathroom for a pee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway. I came downstairs because I needed to refill my glass of squash so, inevitably, I wandered around the garden for a few minutes because Mikey &#8211; cute though he is &#8211; hasn&#8217;t figured out how to use the dogflap yet. I say &#8216;yet&#8217; but it&#8217;s looking like he never will. Did I mention it&#8217;s minus 2c out there? That&#8217;s not exactly the temperature to go wandering around the garden at 01.00, believe me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I hear you ask, what have you been doing for the almost 2 hours since then, and that&#8217;s a good question. In my unwell (obviously fevered) state, I decided it would be a very good idea to blow the dust off the manuscript of the first novel I had published way back in 2004 and stone me, that was 24 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m going to try and redo Crossing The Line and do something with it. I&#8217;m not altogether too certain what &#8216;do something with it&#8217; means, but I&#8217;m at least rewriting and giving it a very heavy edit so it&#8217;s not painfully awful to read (yes, it is painfully awful to read).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing for the last couple of hours. I&#8217;ve been sitting here with Mavis on my left, Mikey on my right, and Robyn across my feet, and working on an ancient manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh well, at least it&#8217;s kept me from going to the gym which, according to the app, currently has fewer than 5 people in there. Maybe I should have done that instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost 03.00 and tonight&#8217;s insomnia is biting hard but I&#8217;m not feeling very well and that&#8217;s a significant factor in being awake right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16062,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions\/16062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}