{"id":12686,"date":"2019-08-08T13:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12686"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:33:48","slug":"a-writers-anniversary-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12686","title":{"rendered":"A Writer&#8217;s Anniversary Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, one of our favorite authors, Jared C. Wilson, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/jared-c-wilson\/reflections-three-10th-anniversaries\/\">three ten-year anniversaries<\/a>, and he reflects on those years at his blog.  &#8220;It was an odd feeling at the time when <em>Your Jesus is Too Safe<\/em>&nbsp;became my first published book. I\u2019d been trying ten years at that point trying to get published&nbsp;<em>as a novelist<\/em>.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5503\">That novel, <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5503\">Otherworld<\/a><\/em>, has seen the light of day, and he has two others in the works, but only one with a contract (let&#8217;s step it up, publishers). &#8220;By God\u2019s grace, I have been privileged to write nearly 20 books and study resources in the last 10 years.&#8221; His next published work looks exciting: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YVgRq4\">The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth<\/a><\/em>, coming January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, one of our favorite authors, Jared C. Wilson, has three ten-year anniversaries, and he reflects on those years at his blog. &#8220;It was an odd feeling at the time when Your Jesus is Too Safe&nbsp;became my first published book. I\u2019d been trying ten years at that point trying to get published&nbsp;as a novelist.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Writer&#8217;s Anniversary Thoughts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[1398],"class_list":["post-12686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-writing","tag-jared-wilson"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}