{"id":13464,"date":"2017-11-24T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13464"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:51:59","slug":"there-is-no-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13464","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 46 posts in my drafts folder. This is a new record for me, but it&#8217;s not anything to be proud of. I hate to see so many unfinished posts, especially the ones about the kids. It also saddens me that some posts don&#8217;t seem worth finishing now, so they represent a lot of wasted time<\/p>\n<p>I need to get my writing act together. The half-ass approach I&#8217;ve been using is wasteful and depressing. If I were to print out every unfinished blog post, essay, short story, novel, verse, song, and piece of work documentation, I&#8217;d be smothered by the resulting mountain of paper. I don&#8217;t want to die under a mound of unfinished work! If I must be buried in paper, let it be my collected published works, so I could at least die knowing that I&#8217;d accomplished something.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to commit to writing or give it up. Fish or cut bait. Or, as Yoda would say, &#8220;Write. Or write not. There is no try.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 46 posts in my drafts folder. This is a new record for me, but it&#8217;s not anything to be proud of. I hate to see so many unfinished posts, especially the ones about the kids. It also saddens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13464\">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":[],"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13466,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions\/13466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}