{"id":5343,"date":"2014-07-04T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2014-07-04T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:41:31","slug":"prize-winning-overhang-and-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5343","title":{"rendered":"prize-winning, overhang, and bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For goodness&#8217; sake. Two weeks in a row I&#8217;m late with this. Yesterday I just forgot it wasn&#8217;t already Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here are three beautiful things from the past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. I won a contest on Twitter from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/booksmetro\">Books on the Metro<\/a> (who generously leaves reading material on D.C.&#8217;s mass transit for its users), which netted me a copy of Robert Galbraith&#8217;s brand-new (and slightly grisly) Cormoran Strike novel, <em>The Silkworm<\/em>. It arrived from my favorite local bookseller at the end of last week, wrapped in cheerful paper, and I have been parceling it out over a few days&#8217; time to savor it (but it will be done today).<\/p>\n<p>2. Outside the coffeehouse, a bench hugs the building. I notice it seems dry as I enter, so I take my tea outside to enjoy the rain and my book.<\/p>\n<p>3. I harvest the first tomato from our garden: it&#8217;s a single cherry tomato, that Rudi and I split in a tiny, delicious morsel.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For goodness&#8217; sake. Two weeks in a row I&#8217;m late with this. Yesterday I just forgot it wasn&#8217;t already Friday&#8230; Anyway, here are three beautiful things from the past week: 1. 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