{"id":374,"date":"2010-09-22T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-09-22T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:22:41","slug":"gutting-and-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/gutting-and-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutting and Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to slice and dice things a bit. I knew I had some rearranging to do, but when I took a look at the end result I wasn&#8217;t happy with it. So I gutted an entire chapter and moved a couple of the main elements to where they belonged. Took out some info I didn&#8217;t have a rock-solid clear memory of, and changed the tone of the rest to more closely match what it was really like for me at the time. I&#8217;m not done yet, but the changes are very pleasing.<\/p>\n<p>And as a bonus, the word count went down by about a thousand words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to slice and dice things a bit. I knew I had some rearranging to do, but when I took a look at the end result I wasn&#8217;t happy with it. So I gutted an entire chapter and moved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/gutting-and-cutting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}