{"id":8426,"date":"2023-02-14T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2023-02-14T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:03:41","slug":"what-im-working-on-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/what-im-working-on-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m working on today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on today. Working on a new book called &#8220;They Live On My Shower Stall Wall.&#8221; Our shower stall walls are patterned to look like marble. Some time ago I saw a face in the random marks, then another, then dozens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In two days, we&#8217;re having the bath redone as a walk-in shower and those panels are going to go. So, I&#8217;ve been photographing them in order to capture all those wonderful faces and creatures and such before they are gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t quite get the lighting right, but last night, getting up to use the facility at 1:00 am, everything looked just right with the bathroom light. Apparently, trying to do it with daylight coming in the window just wasn&#8217;t working, even with supplimental (because of the shadows).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, there I was in the dead of night, snapping away high res pics of all the key panels and close shots of some of the more wonderful images hiding in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which means that today, instead of having to spend it all trying to capture the walls before they are torn down tomorrow, I can write this instead, with an eye toward the book..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample pic from what I&#8217;m planning on&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8427\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/what-im-working-on-today\/elf-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elf.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Elf\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elf.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elf.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8427\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on today. Working on a new book called &#8220;They Live On My Shower Stall Wall.&#8221; Our shower stall walls are patterned to look like marble. Some time ago I saw a face in the random marks, then another, then dozens. In two days, we&#8217;re having the bath redone as a walk-in shower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-2bU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}