{"id":29,"date":"2009-01-05T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T05:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-01-05T23:19:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T05:19:35","slug":"in-the-beginning-2009-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/01\/in-the-beginning-2009-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Beginning&#8230; 2009 Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a blog at the beginning of a calendar year, it seems like the thing to do is talk about what I&#8217;m up to here. \u00a0 Why am I doing this?\u00a0 Primarily to improve my writing by doing it a lot.\u00a0 And I find I have things to say that might be of interest to a wider audience than my friends or co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>All the personal productivity gurus seem to say that goal setting is the path toward high achievement.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been good at setting explicit goals,\u00a0 but I&#8217;m willing to try something new.<\/p>\n<p>So one of my goals for 2009 is to post some content here at least once a week.\u00a0 &#8220;Content&#8221; means a posting of at least 100 words of original content, not just a link to something I find of interest.\u00a0 I expect to hit a variety of topics, including all the categories over there in the sidebar.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Averaging over the year won&#8217;t count &#8212; 52 postings by the end of January isn&#8217;t the same thing as posting weekly.\u00a0 I may occasionally slide early or late, but I&#8217;ll make note of it when I do.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a blog at the beginning of a calendar year, it seems like the thing to do is talk about what I&#8217;m up to here. \u00a0 Why am I doing this?\u00a0 Primarily to improve my writing by doing it a lot.\u00a0 And I find I have things to say that might be of interest to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}