{"id":581,"date":"2017-11-30T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=581"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:21:33","slug":"season-xiv-alphaday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/season-xiv-alphaday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Season XIV &#8211; Alphaday 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 5. This is our last Alphaday this year and \u2013 what\u2019s more \u2013 once we\u2019ve taken in all the goodies that have been prepared for us this Alphaday, we\u2019ll be halfway through the season. And let me warn you! There\u2019s so much on today\u2019s menu that it\u2019ll take a lot longer to digest than even the heaviest Christmas Day dinner of turkey with trimmings and rum-buttered pudding. At least the Alpha menu is good for you and will nourish your writerly spirit in a beneficial way.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This Bulletin from me<\/li>\n<li>Feedback for the Open Page 1 entries from Christine<\/li>\n<li>The collated entries for the letter to your youthful self from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>The brief for Challenge 4 from Sally<\/li>\n<li>A Writers\u2019 Read prompt from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>Alpha Log 2 news from Sally<\/li>\n<li>The Alpha Christmas Quiz from Olaf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is indeed a well garnished menu and you\u2019ll notice that, once again, Olaf has managed to add one very special Christmas goodie to the contents. He\u2019ll tell you all about it when he sends out the quiz, but some of us already know that we\u2019ll spend far too much time feeling in turns exuberant when we\u2019ve solved a clue and hair-tearingly frustrated when we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>There is no special Alpha news apart from what Sally will provide in the Log. That, of course, is always exciting. Successes cheer us up and disappointments are easy to empathise with; we all have them, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p>The world will look after itself over the festive season. News from the UK appears to be preoccupied with (royal) wedding bells and (Brexit) divorce bills. \u2018You can\u2019 have one\u2026\u2019! Pantomimes will provide the cultural input and retailers will rub their hands with glee.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ll enjoy the break until we meet up again next year, and that you\u2019ll find plenty of opportune moments to do some writing. I expect we\u2019ve got a number of things to discuss before we break up for real.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 5. This is our last Alphaday this year and \u2013 what\u2019s more \u2013 once we\u2019ve taken in all the goodies that have been prepared for us this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaday-bulletins","tag-alphaday-bulletins-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}