{"id":995,"date":"2005-03-06T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/06\/note-to-self\/"},"modified":"2005-03-06T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T12:15:00","slug":"note-to-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/note-to-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self:  For future reference, do NOT stop in the middle of a thought and abandon your first draft material for the day.  It will drive you nuts during revisions.<\/p>\n<p>Note to readers:  I have not &#8220;lost&#8221; any material where it disappears in the text.  I never had it to lose.  For whatever reason, while writing the first draft, I stopped work in mid-sentence (at least twice now) and never returned to it.  If, by some freak of nature, you have never experienced this (but I suspect you may have), you really do not want to.  If the thought was not clear when you are writing it, months later, it won&#8217;t be any clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self: For future reference, do NOT stop in the middle of a thought and abandon your first draft material for the day. It will drive you nuts during revisions. Note to readers: I have not &#8220;lost&#8221; any material where it disappears in the text. I never had it to lose. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/note-to-self\/\"><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":[49,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twilight","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\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}