{"id":814,"date":"2019-11-28T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T20:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=814"},"modified":"2019-11-28T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T20:06:00","slug":"season-xvi-alphaday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/season-xvi-alphaday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Season XVI &#8211; Alphaday 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi\nAlphas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome\nto Alphaday 5, Season XVI. We\u2019re making good progress \u2013 through the Alpha\nSeason for starters, and that implies nothing more than following the programme\nas set. The more vague ambition is that we\u2019re also making good progress in\nabsorbing something that will help our ability to assess and improve our\npersonal progress as writers. That is our main aim, and with everyone\u2019s\ncombined input I believe it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s\nagenda is certainly full of inspirational treats. As follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alphaday 5 Season XVI\nagenda: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This\n     bulletin from me<\/li><li>Results\n     and feedback for The Open Page 1<sup>st<\/sup> edition from Christine<\/li><li>The\n     collated entries for the dialogue challenge from Suzanne<\/li><li>The\n     brief for Challenge 4 from Martin<\/li><li>A\n     Writers\u2019 Reads prompt from guest host, Jackie<\/li><li>A call\n     for Log contributions from Phil<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nshould be plenty in that lot to keep your attention for a while and to spur you\non to start preparing our next Alphaday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n<strong>Alpha news<\/strong> is that all\u2019s just about\nfine. Phil is nearing the end of the NanoWrimo experience and will no doubt\ntell us how he got on. Gloria has moved house and is unpacking boxes. England\nis soggy and cold for some poor Alphas and Australia is on fire for another.\nLuckily she\u2019s safe, but that doesn\u2019t mean that the rest of the world is in good\nnick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nfact it\u2019s interesting to see how ordinary people are reacting to the global\ncrisis. Too many politicians are more interested in trade deals, Brexit,\nimmigration, wars and their popularity in the polls to put the threat to the\nplanet at the top of their agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nthink we\u2019ll see popular movements and the efforts of individuals becoming\nincreasingly prominent. The pop group that cancelled a concert tour round the\nworld is a good example. The demand for electric cars (that made the price of\nsecond-hand ones rise) is another. Vegans and vegetarians have a stronger\nargument than their objection to the killing of animals to put forward. And so\nit goes on. I believe a lot of people who\u2019d never thought of becoming involved\nin \u2018causes\u2019 have picked up habits \u2013 even minor things \u2013 that will reduce their\nguilty participation in polluting the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Popular\nmovements these days can surge and become very powerful. Will this one? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 5, Season XVI. We\u2019re making good progress \u2013 through the Alpha Season for starters, and that implies nothing more than following the programme as set. The more&#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-814","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\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}