{"id":1624,"date":"2012-08-31T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T23:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2012-09-05T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:27:58","slug":"dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s only one way to know performance, and that is to measure it. Sound lame? Well, there are those who say what happens outside doesn&#8217;t matter, that what&#8217;s inside is what counts. Unfortunately that&#8217;s untrue &#8211; as a writer you have to have a platform or you&#8217;re basically fecked. I don&#8217;t want to be fecked. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been fecked for far too long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So I have decided to make some changes &#8211; course corrections actually. At least that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hoping. The first one being that I&#8217;ve added a new category to my blog called &#8220;Writing Help&#8221; and added several older posts that were inspirational or helpful. Over time I&#8217;ll be adding more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Up to now I&#8217;ve refrained from doing much in that direction because, quite frankly, as an unpublished author I&#8217;m hardly qualified to tell others how to get published. But it occurred to me that I do have one quality that may be useful to others. Through it all I&#8217;m still pounding away trying. I haven&#8217;t quit. I have good days, bad days and many worse days where I never, ever want to be, but still the story smolders, calling me back, beckoning me to try once again to grow the ember into the inferno I know it will be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s all about platform, baby, and I think I might finally have mine. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s only one way to know performance, and that is to measure it. Sound lame? Well, there are those who say what happens outside doesn&#8217;t matter, that what&#8217;s inside is what counts. Unfortunately that&#8217;s untrue &#8211; as a writer you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/dawn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,11],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writinghelp","tag-platform","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}