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Welcome to my blog at jamietennant.ca<\/p>\nWelcome to my blog at jamietennant.ca<\/p>\n
This is the first blog I\u2019ve written for my own website.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s boring as hell.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s hilarious is in the photograph. This is the first long-form story I ever wrote. Inspired by Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, I did what any budding storyteller would do. I shamelessly ripped off the great Mordechai Richler, stole his characters, and then, always one to live vicariously through fiction, turned his characters into me and my friends. <\/em>I figured he wouldn\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n I found this recently, as I was searching for a long-lost manuscript about demons from other dimensions (as one does). Written on a plastic portable typewriter in my parents\u2019 kitchen at the age of about 10, it reminded me that inside, I\u2019d always known I would be a novelist. Adult life wasn\u2019t proving it \u2013 from the ages of about 25 to 35, in fact, I wrote tens of thousands of words but nary a clause of fiction. Now, rounding that last bend to middle age, I\u2019m published and have caught the bug again. It began with this 4,000 word riff on Intrepid Shapiro and Fearless O\u2019Toole.<\/p>\n This blog will be about\u2026well, tons of things, I\u2019m sure. I\u2019m a music nerd, a father, a husband, a pop culture geek, an author, a community radio program director\u2026it might get unwieldy here. It might go off on tangents. I will be posting episodes of my soon-to-air radio\/podcast, Get Lit,<\/em>\u00a0as well as some short videos, if I can stomach looking at my own face during the editing process.<\/p>\n Hopefully, you\u2019ll come see it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to my blog at jamietennant.ca This is the first blog I\u2019ve written for my own website. That\u2019s boring as hell. What\u2019s hilarious is in the photograph. This is the first long-form story I ever wrote. Inspired by Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, I did what any budding storyteller would do. I shamelessly ripped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,17,19,16,13,15,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-captain-of-kinnoull-hill","9":"tag-first-blog","10":"tag-jamie-tennant","11":"tag-literature","12":"tag-writing","13":"tag-young-writer","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}