{"id":10787,"date":"2007-01-24T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/24\/questions-1-and-2\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T23:51:06","slug":"questions-1-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/24\/questions-1-and-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions 1 and 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since time is so finite, I use a triage method when picking writing projects. Posting on the site occupies the bottom rung. The way I look at it, writing for the Internet resembles treading water&#8211;it probably doesn&#8217;t hurt, though it&#8217;s unlikely to propel me forward. When a post appears here, it&#8217;s after I&#8217;ve gotten something done on a manuscript. I may write a little, or even quite a lot without posting on the site, yet I avoid the reverse.<\/p>\n<p>That goes double for commenting on other websites. For all the social benefits: the camaraderie with other posters, the nod to the post author, I consider commenting entertainment. Therefore it comes last, which in practice is rarely to not at all. Occasionally a topic resonates with me, and I&#8217;ll chime in. Otherwise, I lurk. So far in 2007, I spent about thirty minutes commenting out there on the Internets.*<br \/>\nLately between edits for The Last Track and the draft of The Confession, I haven&#8217;t had much energy for the web. I think that&#8217;s OK. Energy levels fluctuate. Manuscripts come first. They must.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">* Back in 2004-2005 I posted approximately 5,000 entries on a web hosting forum. I got paid to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since time is so finite, I use a triage method when picking writing projects. Posting on the site occupies the bottom rung. The way I look at it, writing for the Internet resembles treading water&#8211;it probably doesn&#8217;t hurt, though it&#8217;s unlikely to propel me forward. When a post appears here, it&#8217;s after I&#8217;ve gotten something [&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-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","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=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}