{"id":1339,"date":"2026-08-19T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:37:48","slug":"lets-plot-book-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Plot Book Three!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 540px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1339-1\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plot-process-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plot-process-2.mp4\">https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plot-process-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little reel about how the sausage gets made (or at least started).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plot-process-2.mp4 Here&#8217;s a little reel about how the sausage gets made (or at least started).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-wip","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2rDfa-lB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":667,"url":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/?p=667","url_meta":{"origin":1339,"position":0},"title":"Book Review: The Ghost Dance Judgement","author":"admin","date":"January 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I really enjoyed R.S. 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