{"id":816,"date":"2015-12-17T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-12-15T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T02:37:10","slug":"an-end-of-the-year-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/an-end-of-the-year-story\/","title":{"rendered":"An End-of-the-Year Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/story.jpg\" rel=\"colorbox\" class=\"colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/story.jpg\" alt=\"story\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/story.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/story-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/story-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/story-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/story-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since this is my last blog post until the New Year, I wanted to leave with you with a story.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, I drove to an all-day author event. My first official signing. It was raining.\u00a0Fog layered up from the ground, making the drive meditative and focused.<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking about how all kinds of art amazes me, not just books. My whole life, I&#8217;ve been enamored by expression in film, music, design, words. You start with something raw&#8211;one shot, one chord, a room, a word&#8211;and turn it into something that can capture an audience, make people dance, make a home, tell a story.<\/p>\n<p>And this feeling seeped in, as it does now and then, of how lucky I am to be following my dreams&#8211;my art&#8211;which introduces me to all sorts of incredibly talented people who are doing things that produce awe and joy. I mean after all the twists and turns in life, somehow&#8230; this is my life. \u00a0How lucky can a girl get?<\/p>\n<p>The feeling built, soft\u00a0as fog, for the husband who loves me enough to spend ten hours making mini bow &amp; arrows sets for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/arrows-pre-order\/\" target=\"_blank\">my pre-order giveaway<\/a>, for the\u00a0people I know with seriously good hearts, and for life&#8217;s simple pleasures, like being an author on the road, lost in her thoughts when it&#8217;s raining; overwhelmed and grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a safe and happy holiday.<\/p>\n<p>xo,<\/p>\n<p>Melissa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is my last blog post until the New Year, I wanted to leave with you with a story. On Sunday, I drove to an all-day author event. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-read-p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/an-end-of-the-year-story\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}