{"id":148,"date":"2005-06-10T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2005-06-10T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T17:05:00","slug":"travelogue-slacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/travelogue-slacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue Slacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, okay, so I am a slacker. I am trying to catch up. See, here&#8217;s the<br \/>\nproblem. I truly believe in a process-based approach to writing, for<br \/>\neveryone except me. My writing is supposed to be complete and perfect<br \/>\nbefore anyone reads it. So, in tengrrl world, all the travelogues need to<br \/>\nbe perfect and up to date before I share them. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cheryl Ball, gizmologist from Utah State Universe, says the following<br \/>\nin response, reformatted as a list of ten: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Just post the damned thing.\n<li>You are denying your public. We are hungry for your words.\n<li>No one really cares that it&#8217;s a week late.\n<li>You&#8217;re pissing me off. Now go away so I can get work done.\n<li>Really.\n<li>Quit your needy shit and get out of here.\n<li>Look, bitch, I&#8217;m busy. Publish the damned thing.\n<li>If you don&#8217;t move along soon, I&#8217;m calling the cops.\n<li>Woman, you have about three more seconds before I call Alex.\n<li>Gizmo! Attack!\n<\/ol>\n<p>Based on this interaction, I was compelled to publish my travelogue<br \/>\nfrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/breaking-fast-at-ciwic.shtml\">first day of CIWIC<\/a> today. It&#8217;s okay. They tell me that they can get the blood off the keyboard, and I&#8217;ll only need a small transfusion. As if the pain of backdating things isn&#8217;t enough. Damn that vole killer. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tag\"><br \/>\nTags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tengrrl+travelblog\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tengrrl&#8217;s travelblog<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, okay, so I am a slacker. I am trying to catch up. See, here&#8217;s the problem. I truly believe in a process-based approach to writing, for everyone except me. My writing is supposed to be complete and perfect before&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/travelogue-slacker\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-2o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}