{"id":1194,"date":"2011-01-01T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2011-01-01T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T18:29:27","slug":"what-about-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2011\/01\/what-about-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"What About 2011?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, 29 December 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

So now I\u2019m wondering if I should keep this daily blog things going into 2011, too. Really, I\u2019ve been thinking about this for a while, but now that 2010 is almost done, it\u2019s time to make a decision.<\/p>\n

Here are some problems with this write-something-everyday format:<\/p>\n

For one thing, as you might have noticed, I cheated. A lot. On most posts, you will notice that I wrote about 3 or even four days at a time. I tried to write about each day in the present tense, but sometimes the day had already passed several days ago. This made things tough, because the longer I waited to post a blog (usually due to being\u00a0 busy), the more I had to write, and if I didn\u2019t have time in the first place, then I really got backlogged when I had to write about 3 or 4 days.<\/p>\n

Second, it\u2019s hard to write about some days. I hate to admit it, but some days really had nothing that special going on: I got up, went to work, came home, ate dinner, and, well, nothing that remarkable. So I would write about the weather, or some other websites I found that day, or just some random stuff I was thinking about. At the other extreme, sometimes there was too much to talk about for one day. So this was another way I would cheat: I would find some odd way to squeeze a topic into a specific day. Like this blog post where I wrote about my playlist being played on KQRS<\/a> several days after it had happened. Why did I do that? Because the day they played my playlist was Halloween, and I figured it was better to write about Halloween, so I instead waited until my \u201cprize package\u201d came in the mail to write about it.<\/p>\n

And, sometimes, there were things I felt I shouldn\u2019t talk about. For example, I didn\u2019t think it would be prudent to write about being annoyed with my kids, or having arguments with my wife (or any other good friend); and I thought it was probably wise to not talk about issues relating to my job. I also figured no one wanted to hear too much about any financial issues or health problems (well, if I was really sick that might be interesting, but no one wants to hear, \u201cI had a mild headache all day\u201d). So, when I was sick for several days, I had to stretch to find some other things to talk about. Sometimes that was tough.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the issue of turnover: sometimes I really wanted what I wrote to be on the top of my blog for more than one day. If I wrote something I felt was important or note-worthy, then I didn\u2019t want it to get buried in the avalanche of posts. This is tough when I\u2019m trying to write something every day.<\/p>\n

And speaking of note-worthy topics, occasionally, I would write a post and think \u201cthere, this will generate some comments,\u201d or, \u201cI\u2019ll be interested to see what people think about this,\u201d but then no one says anything. Kind of disappointing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, those are just my thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, 29 December 2010 So now I\u2019m wondering if I should keep this daily blog things going into 2011, too. Really, I\u2019ve been thinking about this for a while, but now that 2010 is almost done, it\u2019s time to make a decision. Here are some problems with this write-something-everyday format: For one thing, as you […]<\/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-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}