{"id":267,"date":"2009-03-03T09:06:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=267"},"modified":"2009-03-03T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T20:38:55","slug":"way-down-in-the-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Way Down In The Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing these words from <strong>the bottom of a very deep hole<\/strong>, where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently languishing until I finish the second draft of <strong>my new book<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <strong>crunch time<\/strong>, folks, and anything could happen: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not kidding, last time I got to this point with a book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/jan_march07.html\">I freaked out and cut all my hair off<\/a> [Don&#8217;t believe me? Hit the link and scroll down for proof! (;p)]. One thing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for certain though: I probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to post to this blog much over the next two or three weeks. My apologies for that. On the plus side, however, I do have <strong>a competition<\/strong> that you maybe might be interested in entering\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6!<\/p>\n<p>On the special website for my book <strong>The Black Tattoo<\/strong> I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/competition.html\"><strong>No Monsters Were Harmed In The Making Of This Website Competition<\/strong><\/a>, or <strong>NMWHIT MOTWC<\/strong> for short. It gives me great glee and delight to announce that we now have<strong> another winner<\/strong>, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.me.com\/edwardkemper#100012\"><strong>Monique Van Dongen<\/strong><\/a>, of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and her awesome image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/competition_winner_r8.html\">THE NEW EMPEROR<\/a>! YAY!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/competition.html\">Click here for full details of the competition, how to enter, and what you might win<\/a>. The next round finishes at the end of this month. If you fancy your chances, <strong>the WebSphinx<\/strong> and I would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>Right: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNose to the grindstone time,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as my mum used to say. VREEEEEEEEEEEEE-! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" alt=\";)\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing these words from the bottom of a very deep hole, where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently languishing until I finish the second draft of my new book&#8230; Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crunch time, folks, and anything could happen: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not kidding, last time I got to this point with a book I freaked out and cut all my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}