{"id":2102,"date":"2006-01-02T18:08:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2006-01-02T18:08:29","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T23:08:29","slug":"new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"New year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year all!  And a big &#8220;Hi&#8221; to the first reader of 2006, who came here via a Yahoo Video search looking for a 3D Hypnotic Spiral.  And to the last visitor of 2005 who was reading about Speed Writing over at my Wife&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>Log analysis can be fun sometimes&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo yeah.  About the December Challenge&#8230;  I realized in the last week of the month that I was on vacation, and that all of the posts I was doing were rushed little blurbs that seemed more like chores than writing.  The quality of the writing was appalling and they just weren&#8217;t very interesting at all.  So I stopped worrying about them.  Which means, I suppose, that I lost the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;d rather lose the challenge by not posting drivel than lose readers by churning out muck to an arbitrary deadline.  Regular updates are good, obviously, and there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/booniverse\/\">some people<\/a> who can post updates both regularly and well, but I&#8217;m not one of them, and I&#8217;m not going to kill myself trying to become one of them.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m your sole source for trivialities and blather&#8230; well&#8230; I&#8217;m sorry, but sometimes stuff comes up.  I do try to write a post every weekday, even if it&#8217;s a short post.  But if something comes up and I get too busy, or if I just don&#8217;t like what I&#8217;ve written, then there&#8217;ll be some times when there&#8217;s nothing new here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year all! And a big &#8220;Hi&#8221; to the first reader of 2006, who came here via a Yahoo Video search looking for a 3D Hypnotic Spiral. And to the last visitor of 2005 who was reading about Speed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2102","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\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}