{"id":34,"date":"2005-02-23T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/blogging-is-for-procrastinators\/"},"modified":"2005-02-23T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T05:03:48","slug":"blogging-is-for-procrastinators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/2005\/02\/23\/uncategorized\/blogging-is-for-procrastinators\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging is for Procrastinators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/10961508.htm?1c\">article<\/a> in the San Jose Mercury News yesterday about blogging addiction. I&#8217;m happy to say that I am not a member of that set. No, I have found that blogging is primarily a form of procrastination. For example, I really need to be writing a 300 word bio for a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballisticpublishing.com\/books\/vesage\/\">Vesage<\/a> that my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/legotar\/legotar.html\">Legotar<\/a> will be in. Instead I&#8217;m doing this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/testblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2x4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[34]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/testblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2x4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2x4\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft noframe size-full wp-image-117\" \/><\/a> So, I have a new strategy. I have stolen a gift that my son gave to my wife for her birthday last year. Shown in the image to the left, it has inscribed on it, &#8220;IT&#8217;S A 2X4. YOU CAN WHACK DAD WITH IT!&#8221; Leaving aside the supposed necessity of this gift, I&#8217;m &#8220;borrowing&#8221; it and putting it on my desk as a gentle reminder that I need to get real work done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a great article in the San Jose Mercury News yesterday about blogging addiction. I&#8217;m happy to say that I am not a member of that set. No, I have found that blogging is primarily a form of procrastination. For example, I really need to be writing a 300 word bio for a book  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wanky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}