{"id":406,"date":"2010-10-27T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-10-27T14:45:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T21:45:18","slug":"slicing-and-dicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/slicing-and-dicing\/","title":{"rendered":"Slicing and dicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to tear the Alaska chapter to shreds and start over. Why? It&#8217;s just too critical a chapter to leave it to the minor edits I had going.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I knew what I needed to do with it and thought I&#8217;d fixed it. But when I reviewed it I was not happy at all. So I stepped back, put things into perspective, and asked myself what was so critical about this chapter that I wasn&#8217;t getting? The answer has since come to me &#8211; I know what the layout needs to be but I have yet to find all the words. At the moment, words are coming in dribs and drabs, and not all of them are any good. I&#8217;ve managed only to get the opening of the chapter down and now have hit a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe tomorrow will be better, or even later tonight. Too much on my mind to worry about it right at this moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to tear the Alaska chapter to shreds and start over. Why? It&#8217;s just too critical a chapter to leave it to the minor edits I had going. I thought I knew what I needed to do with it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/slicing-and-dicing\/\">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-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}