{"id":638,"date":"2017-03-18T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/?p=638"},"modified":"2017-03-18T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T16:14:52","slug":"farewell-to-the-great-procrastinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/18\/farewell-to-the-great-procrastinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Great Procrastinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/giphy.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ahem &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know. It&#8217;s been more than two years since I last posted here. But I haven&#8217;t been procrastinating. Honest. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been busy doing a lot of stuff including gaining a Masters in Writing for Young People from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bathspa.ac.uk\/courses\/pg-writing-for-young-people\/\">Bath Spa University<\/a>. As a result of which I&#8217;ve now achieved a long-held great procrastinator&#8217;s dream of finishing a novel, as well as meeting a whole group of lovely, amazing, supportive people. Currently we&#8217;re working together to produce our anthology <em>Paper Worlds\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; out in the wilds on 11th April.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here it is! Paper Worlds Anthology &#8211; cover artwork by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amber_ibbo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amber_ibbo<\/a>, student <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BathSpaUni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BathSpaUni<\/a> Great job, Amber!\ud83d\ude0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G5dThHucdo\">pic.twitter.com\/G5dThHucdo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brave New Words (@MAWFYPAnthology) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAWFYPAnthology\/status\/841257593557377024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, I no longer consider myself the greatest procrastinator of them all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Except when it comes to cleaning, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And this small distraction who arrived 18 months ago.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_6898-002-alf-e1489853323123.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-636 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_6898-002-alf-e1489853323123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahem &#8230; I know. It&#8217;s been more than two years since I last posted here. But I haven&#8217;t been procrastinating. Honest. Quite the opposite. I&#8217;ve been busy doing a lot of stuff including gaining a Masters in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University. As a result of which I&#8217;ve now achieved a long-held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/18\/farewell-to-the-great-procrastinator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farewell to the Great Procrastinator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,30,38,43],"tags":[60,69,72,98,110,125,130,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}