{"id":1370,"date":"2020-12-31T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2020-12-31T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T16:10:45","slug":"five-posts-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2020\/12\/31\/five-posts-in-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"five posts in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the last day of what is one of the more difficult years I can remember. There&#8217;s a number of reasons for that, and I&#8217;ve been using places like Twitter to try and fill some voids. I love conversation and digging into the meat of matters, but interacting in text snippets and gifs through mediums like Twitter, Slack, Signal, and others is not that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to change that a little, even if it&#8217;s just me putting longer-form thoughts to posts vs. a jumbled thread that shards into several more threads. I like writing, and I miss the conversations that happen around the things I write. I also realize how much of a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deadsquid\/status\/1339906810912923649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">content desert<\/a> the web has become through the lens of Google. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try and re-kindle creating the web content I love, with a moderate goal of a post a week on things I care about and want to share. We&#8217;ll see how it goes, but five posts in the last six years is a pretty awful record, and you have to give to get. This is my only new year&#8217;s resolution, and I&#8217;ll probably spend a bunch of time on pinball, beer, and home automation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021 will be what I make it, and I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last day of what is one of the more difficult years I can remember. There&#8217;s a number of reasons for that, and I&#8217;ve been using places like Twitter to try and fill some voids. I love conversation and digging into the meat of matters, but interacting in text snippets and gifs through mediums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[87,88],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-me","tag-87","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}