{"id":744,"date":"2006-11-05T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=744"},"modified":"2006-11-05T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T14:42:28","slug":"making-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Making the Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress, the software that runs this blog, assigns each post a number in the order that they are written.  For example, this is post #744.  According to the admin page, I&#8217;ve <em>published<\/em> 615 posts.  <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to my longer essay style posts, I usually let them simmer for a few days.  On Day 1 I&#8217;ll type some sentence fragments of the points I want to make.  Day 2 I&#8217;ll gather some URL&#8217;s and toss them in.  Day 3 I&#8217;ll try to hammer the thing into some sort of prose.  Day 4 I&#8217;ll read it over and decide if I still like it.  If I don&#8217;t I toss it.  If I do, I clean up and post it, sometimes rembering to spell-check.  Lots of essays never make the cut.  Somewhere in the chain of events I&#8217;ll just abandon it, or decide I don&#8217;t care, or that the idea is boring.  <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think this happened very often, but going by the numbers WordPress is giving me it looks like I throw away a little more than one out of every seven posts.  I&#8217;ve tossed 129 posts so far.  The casualty list is actually a bit longer than that, since I have a few dozen posts that I&#8217;ve abandoned but haven&#8217;t gotten around to deleting.   <\/p>\n<p>Since the essay posts are the ones that get killed before they mature (smaller posts get written and posted in a single sitting) and since most of my posts are &#8220;small&#8221; posts, I would say my essay survival rate is probably closer to two out of three.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect this seems a bit wierd.  Anyone else do this?  How do you blog?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress, the software that runs this blog, assigns each post a number in the order that they are written. For example, this is post #744. According to the admin page, I&#8217;ve published 615 posts. When it comes to my longer essay style posts, I usually let them simmer for a few days. On Day 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}