{"id":278,"date":"2011-12-02T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T22:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zahraowens.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2012-02-17T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:10:07","slug":"christmas-story-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Christmas story out today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NaNoWriMo is over again, it&#8217;s time to get another story out there.<BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamspinnerpress.com\/store\/images\/cover_images\/HappinessforBeginnersLG.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Happiness for Beginners<\/strong><BR>Jesse harbored a crush on his TV series costar, Kaye, for more than eight years, but when the show was canceled and he realized those years of playing gay hadn\u2019t convinced Kaye to leave the straight and narrow, Jesse turned his back on acting for good. Ten years later, Kaye is back in Jesse\u2019s life, on Christmas Eve\u2014and the eve of his third divorce. Jesse\u2019s not sure his heart can take another beating, but Kaye has a few tricks up his sleeve\u2014and a few truths from his own heart\u2014that might just convince Jesse that the gifts of love and happiness are not just for Christmas.<BR><BR><\/p>\n<p>This story was part of the Dreamspinner Press Advent Calendar and is now available to buy separately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamspinnerpress.com\/store\/product_info.php?products_id=2604\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/JavaScript\">var TFN='';var TFA='';var TFI='0';var TFL='0';var tf_RetServer=\"rt.trafficfacts.com\";var tf_SiteId=\"3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca\";var tf_ScrServer=document.location.protocol+\"\/\/rt.trafficfacts.com\/tf.php?k=3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca;c=s;v=5\";document.write(unescape('%3Cscript type=\"text\/JavaScript\" src=\"'+tf_ScrServer+'\">%3C\/script>'));<\/script><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.trafficfacts.com\/ns.php?k=3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NaNoWriMo is over again, it&#8217;s time to get another story out there. Happiness for BeginnersJesse harbored a crush on his TV series costar, Kaye, for more than eight years, but when the show was canceled and he realized those years of playing gay hadn\u2019t convinced Kaye to leave the straight and narrow, Jesse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24,16],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-story","tag-christmas","tag-promo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}