{"id":1131,"date":"2017-08-23T21:48:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2017-08-23T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:48:53","slug":"the-last-of-the-newsgroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-last-of-the-newsgroup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last of the Newsgroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got tired of doling them out roughly once a day, and just transferred the dozen or so remaining progress reports from my old SFF Net newsgroup to <a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/\">the Serial Box<\/a>, my other blog.<\/p>\n<p>If you look through that list, you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;ll never need another story idea as long as I live.  (I&#8217;ll undoubtedly generate lots of them anyway, though.)  People who think ideas are <i>really important<\/i> for writers, take note:  Ideas are cheap.  Originality isn&#8217;t necessary, either.<\/p>\n<p><i>My<\/i> biggest problem is finding the time to write the damned things.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this means that sff.people.lwe is really, truly gone for good.  Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got tired of doling them out roughly once a day, and just transferred the dozen or so remaining progress reports from my old SFF Net newsgroup to the Serial Box, my other blog. If you look through that list, you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;ll never need another story idea as long as I live. (I&#8217;ll&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-last-of-the-newsgroup\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities-rants","category-strange-days","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}