{"id":1810,"date":"2004-08-30T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2004-08-30T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T12:25:44","slug":"ninja-throw-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Ninja throw rug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea what that title means.  I just kind of like the concept of black-clad Japanese assassins creeping around with lethal sharpened carpet samples.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Ihnatko posted some brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwob.com\/yellowtext\/yellowtext0804.html#58831\">words of wisdom<\/a> that encapsulate why I haven&#8217;t posted much here recently.  I&#8217;ve been thinking too much about what I write.  I get started on something and then I find myself re-thinking and re-editing to the point that I just abandon what I&#8217;ve written as &#8220;Not Good Enough&#8221; and wind up posting nothing.<\/p>\n<p>And if there&#8217;s one thing that I should have learned by now, when it comes to the Internet, there&#8217;s no such thing as &#8220;Not Good Enough.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a whole world of really fantastically awful things out there, just waiting for me to add to it!  Worrying that one particular post or even a single awkward turn of phrase isn&#8217;t good enough for the internet is like being concerned that the bread crust you&#8217;re throwing out isn&#8217;t <i>quite<\/i> moldy enough for the compost heap.<\/p>\n<p>So.  I&#8217;m likely to post more, and more often, and we&#8217;ll see if quality improves with practice, or if I&#8217;m just going to be adding to the massive quantity of gunk clogging up the capillaries of the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea what that title means. I just kind of like the concept of black-clad Japanese assassins creeping around with lethal sharpened carpet samples. Andy Ihnatko posted some brilliant words of wisdom that encapsulate why I haven&#8217;t posted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1810\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}