{"id":23,"date":"2006-09-09T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T22:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2017-02-20T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:09:06","slug":"monday-march-31-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/monday-march-31-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, March 31, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, sans-serif\">           Well, I think it&#8217;s become obvious to all and sundry that I am not cut out for a blogging career. I think I&#8217;ve even figured out why.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m going to write up my thoughts and opinions, I do it for pay, not for free. What I want when I go online is a conversation, not a chance to lecture &#8212; which means newsgroups, or my guestbook. I know there are blogs now that allow other people to post in them, but even that just seems so much slower and clunkier than a newsgroup.<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t help that I&#8217;m using a slow modem and Blogger is a busy site; adding something here is too much like work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to give it up completely, or take down what I&#8217;ve got, but I&#8217;m not going to pretend I&#8217;ll be posting any more regularly or more often in the future. I&#8217;ll post when the whim strikes me, whether that&#8217;s twice a day or twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I think it&#8217;s become obvious to all and sundry that I am not cut out for a blogging career. I think I&#8217;ve even figured out why. If I&#8217;m going to write up my thoughts and opinions, I do it for pay, not for free. What I want when I go online is a conversation,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/monday-march-31-2003\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}