{"id":2541,"date":"2013-04-15T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2013-04-15T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:13:15","slug":"blog-tour-and-childish-behaviour-ahoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour and Childish Behaviour, Ahoy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple things to announce and\/or confess today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=2545\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2545\" title=\"bewitching_author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/bewitching_author.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/bewitching_author.png 298w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/bewitching_author-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/bewitching_author-190x190.png 190w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/bewitching_author-60x59.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>Firstly, today kicks off a two week <a title=\"bewitching\" href=\"http:\/\/bewitchingbooktours.blogspot.ca\/2013\/04\/now-on-tour-touched-by-j-aalto.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bewitching Blog Tour<\/a> for &#8220;Touched.&#8221; There will be spotlights, interviews, guest posts, and various giveaways, so be sure to check in daily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Secondly, at approximately 5:01 A.M. at the day job, this happened:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=2542\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2542\" title=\"photo (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/photo-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/photo-52.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/photo-52-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/photo-52-142x190.jpg 142w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/photo-52-60x80.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I may or may not have been involved. Okay, I might have been the <em>only<\/em> one involved, although if you believe the sticker, I had Heavenly help. And if I was made in His image, he sure has a mischievous side. Heh heh &#8230;.(<em>I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to Hell for sure.<\/em>) To be fair, I had Songza set to Hit of the 80&#8217;s by accident, and I was listening to Hall and Oates. Everyone at the Booktrope family knows that Hall and Oates can make ANYTHING happen.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, my children&#8217;s slide finally fell off the swing set, and I came to the realization that there was no point in fixing it, since they&#8217;re 12 &amp; 9 and they don&#8217;t use the set any more. Which means my kids are old. Which means <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> old. *choke-blerg!* This is, however, the perfect excuse to start acting like a complete and utter child in the hopes of turning back the hands of time. I will do this experiment FOR SCIENCE!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=2546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2546\" title=\"385291_324293381010056_1757211538_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/385291_324293381010056_1757211538_n-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/385291_324293381010056_1757211538_n-258x300.jpg 258w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/385291_324293381010056_1757211538_n-163x190.jpg 163w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/385291_324293381010056_1757211538_n-60x69.jpg 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/385291_324293381010056_1757211538_n.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Fourthly, I am working on two projects at the moment: the third installment of the Marnie Baranuik Files, &#8220;Last Impressions,&#8221; and a Marnie Baranuik short story which will be offered for free on Amazon. There may be progress on the collaborations, and possibly some erotica to come. (<em>Ha! I said come. See? Operation Childish is already working.<\/em>) Anyhoo, details to follow! Stay weird, my friends. *swak*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=2549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2549\" title=\"iphone-20120409022557-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/iphone-20120409022557-1-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/iphone-20120409022557-1-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/iphone-20120409022557-1-149x190.jpg 149w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/iphone-20120409022557-1-60x76.jpg 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/iphone-20120409022557-1.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Author&#8217;s note: Whenever I think about taking a day off and slacking, I think about Stephen King, and I imagine him giving me THIS look. THIS look says, &#8220;Oh, yeah? You don&#8217;t wanna be successful? Okay, then by all means, go take some time off. Take a few weeks. Months. Years, even.&#8221; What a great motivator THIS look is&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple things to announce and\/or confess today: Firstly, today kicks off a two week Bewitching Blog Tour for &#8220;Touched.&#8221; There will be spotlights, interviews, guest posts, and various giveaways, so be sure to check in daily. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Secondly, at approximately 5:01 A.M. at the day job, this happened: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}