{"id":1760,"date":"2010-11-04T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-11-03T21:27:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T10:27:31","slug":"counting-my-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"counting my chickens&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1761\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1761\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1761\" title=\"Cigarette case set (two pendants)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/big-Cigarette-case-set-two-pendants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/11\/big-Cigarette-case-set-two-pendants.jpg 412w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/11\/big-Cigarette-case-set-two-pendants-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cigarette case set 2009. Recycled silver, stainless steel cable, silk thread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to say I&#8217;m an optimist, but sometimes I count my chickens before they&#8217;ve hatched. If I haven&#8217;t heard from an organisation long after the deadline has lapsed, I assume the worst and move on. In those cases I assumed the egg has been scrambled.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I received a letter in the post, from an organisation I had completely forgotten about. The letter, which on sight I had pegged as containing the inevitable &#8220;you were part of a very strong field, but we&#8217;re sorry, you&#8217;re not accepted&#8221;, turned out to have &#8220;Accept&#8221; next to the name of my work. (Which made me more inclined to absolve the saggy syntax in the letter.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased and proud to reveal that my work, Cigarette Case Set, is to be published next year in the Lark Crafts book <em>500 Silver Jewelry Designs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems some eggs take a little longer to incubate than others. I&#8217;m cool with that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa makes a short story long. She&#8217;s going to have one of her pieces published in 2011!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,107,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-context","category-jewellery","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}