{"id":4594,"date":"2012-03-09T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2012-03-09T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:48:06","slug":"number-1500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4594","title":{"rendered":"Number 1,500&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s been almost two years I&#8217;ve been doing this thing and this one is number 1,500 and, as always, I don&#8217;t know what to think if it&#8230;.on one level, I&#8217;m proud that I&#8217;ve had the tenacity and discipline to write an average of more than two of these a day, and some of them have even been pretty good&#8230;.but on another level, the question has to be asked: &#8220;What&#8217;s the point?&#8221;. I&#8217;m not sure I can answer that one&#8230;I do know that it has helped keep my skills at writing at least warmed up and the old adage that &#8220;if you don&#8217;t use it, you lose it&#8221; always runs through my mind when I get up in the morning and don&#8217;t feel like even trying. Does everything have to have a point? Or, is it enough to just do it for me? It may be that I am doing this just for me&#8230;haven&#8217;t looked at the stats lately to see how many people are still coming&#8230;there were periods when there were thousands of you every day and I guess I don&#8217;t look because I don&#8217;t need another reason to be depressed, and who else cares but me? So, I will say thanks to those of you that keep coming back and listening to this overqualified and unemployed old guy try to make sense of things&#8230;.and, I&#8217;ll continue to try to get better and do better every day&#8230;if you&#8217;ve been here before, you know how big of a struggle that is at times&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s been almost two years I&#8217;ve been doing this thing and this one is number 1,500 and, as always, I don&#8217;t know what to think if it&#8230;.on one level, I&#8217;m proud that I&#8217;ve had the tenacity and discipline to write an average of more than two of these a day, and some of them have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Number 1,500&#8230;.<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}