{"id":274,"date":"2002-11-20T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2002-11-20T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2002-11-20T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2002-11-20T18:56:12","slug":"writing-magtape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/11\/20\/writing-magtape\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing, magtape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A useful article on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/4\/28184.html\">write a better weblog<\/a>. In summary: don&#8217;t just link, say something new, join the dots, create content. Well, that was my original idea with this blog. I was going to write articles or nothing, and that would help me organise my thoughts and practice writing. Unfortunately, I quiickly found out how hard that is. If I spend a day playing with, say, web services, my poor little brain is just too frazzled to be able to extract some&nbsp;useful or interesting commentary from the experience. And even if I could, I find it very difficult to switch from coding to writing &#8211; I&nbsp;produce very long sentences with nested, punctuated&nbsp;clauses, and&nbsp;way too many&nbsp;brackets. Code, in other words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A useful article on how to write a better weblog. In summary: don&#8217;t just link, say something new, join the dots, create content. Well, that was my original idea with this blog. I was going to write articles or nothing, and that would help me organise my thoughts and practice writing. Unfortunately, I quiickly found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/11\/20\/writing-magtape\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing, magtape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}