{"id":4360,"date":"2012-09-10T21:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T01:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:41","slug":"patti-n-me-first-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/patti-n-me-first-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti-n-Me: First Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago Patricia Carrigan and I were DMing back and forth in Twitter about this and that&#8230; whaz-at?\u00a0 Not a year ago? Oh, well let me think&#8230; yeah, you&#8217;re right, it was just a couple of months- err weeks?\u00a0 Oh, *A* week! Yeah, that&#8217;s what I meant; a week ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciacarrigan.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Patricia Carrigan\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8181\/7974793110_fe57494021_m_d.jpg\" alt=\"Patrician Carrigan, author, Antiserum, vampire novels\" width=\"136\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Anyway Patti asked if I&#8217;d do a guest post for her blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you know Patricia Carrigan is the author of the <a title=\"Check out Antiserum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciacarrigan.com\/antiserum---part-i.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Antiserum<\/em> vampire series<\/a>.\u00a0 I had to confess that I&#8217;d never read the series because, well, because vampires are just way to scary for my delicate psyche.\u00a0 I like to sleep at night. But she graciously said that it didn&#8217;t have to be about vampires, or it could be about being vampirely clueless.\u00a0 I had to do a little thinking on that so I did what I usually do: fire up the tractor and go mow some lawn.<\/p>\n<p>It worked, I wrote up what came to me and fired it off. It just went live, with this preamble from Patti:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I have enjoyed tweeting with Doug for some time and so I begged him to do a post for me.\u00a0 Well, technically, I asked and he said yes.\u00a0Then he pondered about what to write for a while (I don&#8217;t give to many constraints) And then after writing it&#8230; I got busy!! &#8230; I mean, we&#8217;re talking&#8230; totally swamped..don&#8217;t know where my\u00a0head is type busy! <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>So, FINALLY&#8230; I&#8217;m letting the world see the wonderful post Doug wrote for me!!\u00a0 He was so sweet about having to wait. huge hugs Doug!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My pleasure Patti, it&#8217;s been fun.<\/p>\n<p>Please pop over to Patti&#8217;s blog and give it\u00a0 a read: <a title=\"Read First Times on PatriciaCarrigan.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciacarrigan.com\/1\/post\/2012\/09\/allan-doug-douglas-first-times.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>First Times<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago Patricia Carrigan and I were DMing back and forth in Twitter about this and that&hellip; whaz-at?&nbsp; Not a year ago? Oh, well let me think&hellip; yeah, you&rsquo;re right, it was just a couple of months- err weeks?&nbsp; Oh, *A* week! Yeah, that&rsquo;s what I meant; a week ago. Anyway Patti asked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/patti-n-me-first-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patti-n-Me: First Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21589,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/21589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}