{"id":10628,"date":"2005-01-30T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/reading-pbotl\/"},"modified":"2005-01-30T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T22:56:00","slug":"reading-pbotl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/reading-pbotl\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading PBOTL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading <strong>PBOTL<\/strong> for the first time.  I&#8217;m on page 28.  So far, I like it.  I see a few things that need fixing&#8211;I think Inuit&#8217;s sister became a brother later in the book (if I recall correctly).  A few things like that.  Of course, there are a few typos and letters missing from words (but they&#8217;re still words, so spell checker didn&#8217;t catch them when I first typed).  One of my main premises disappeared later in the book&#8211;I knew that had happened and made a note to myself when I realized it as I was writing it.  That&#8217;s a major fix, and I need to decide what to do with it on the read through.<\/p>\n<p>But would anybody want to read it?  Is it too boring?  I don&#8217;t know.  Am I looking for problems that aren&#8217;t there or completely missing huge, gaping holes that any reader could see right off the bat?  Why can&#8217;t I judge these things?  I&#8217;ll keep reading.  There are problems I do recognize, and I&#8217;ll work on those first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading PBOTL for the first time. I&#8217;m on page 28. So far, I like it. I see a few things that need fixing&#8211;I think Inuit&#8217;s sister became a brother later in the book (if I recall correctly). A few things like that. Of course, there are a few typos <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/reading-pbotl\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pbotl","category-twilight-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}