It’s been several weeks since we posted here, so I thought I’d pop my head up through the hole.<\/p>\n
The whack-a-mole imagery seems like a good place to start. When offered good news or bad news first, I usually start with the bad. <\/p>\n
A few months ago, we told you about our nomination<\/a> in the Just Plain Folks Award. We didn’t win there either<\/a>. It was announced a month ago, to be honest. Between work, the coming holiday season, and our disappointment, we just couldn’t get a posting out. <\/p>\n I try to look at it realistically, then philsophically. The usual Okay, the good news…at least for anyone who liked Volumes 1 or 2. We’re going into pre-production for Volume 3.<\/p>\n And Volume 4.<\/p>\n No, I’m not kidding. Yes, I am insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been several weeks since we posted here, so I thought I’d pop my head up through the hole. The whack-a-mole imagery seems like a good place to start. When offered good news or bad news first, I usually start with the bad. A few months ago, we told you about our nomination in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}excuses<\/strike> explanations came to mind. And it really was a real jolt that, out of the thousands of other albums and artists, we were actually noticed. Being noticed is nice. The truth is…being nominated isn’t enough for me<\/a>.<\/p>\n