{"id":10494,"date":"2005-09-03T01:26:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10494"},"modified":"2005-09-05T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T20:44:16","slug":"rough-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/03\/rough-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of sheer word count, this week was a blight with a net gain of five hundred words.  Less than a stellar report card, I admit.  Revisions figured largely into this shortfall.  I sliced several chapters to the quick, and extricated a few points destined for loose end ville.  A reduction in content deeply impacted the net word count.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a paucity of time available for writing meant less writing overall.  Preparing for an interview consumed one day, the actual interview and necessary follow-up, another.<\/p>\n<p>Still, ultimately the failure is mine alone.  Yuck.  I hate writing that, but it is truth, and truth hurts.   What I can state is that my efforts bettered what lies on the page, even if there are fewer new pages than I like.<\/p>\n<p>Next week I&#8217;ll try harder.  <\/p>\n<p>Already the word count meter has benefits.  It raised my awareness of where I stand on the manuscript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of sheer word count, this week was a blight with a net gain of five hundred words. Less than a stellar report card, I admit. Revisions figured largely into this shortfall. I sliced several chapters to the quick, and extricated a few points destined for loose end ville. A reduction in content deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}