{"id":724,"date":"2003-09-06T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2003-09-06T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2003-09-06T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2003-09-06T11:50:26","slug":"idleness-stupidity-and-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Idleness, stupidity and cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are, when I come to think of it, the main reasons for my lack of success in life. I&#8217;ve just finished two long magazine pieces, and should have spent yesterday writing a book outline. Instead, I sat down to fiddle with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/lunatic\/bugs\/oo_macros.html\">word count code<\/a> I had made for OOo, and emerged six hours later with a macro that does everything anyone could possibly want, except for the old Cix trick of counting down to a given word length and then putting up a message that says &#8220;stop typing now&#8221;. Mind you, I worked out how to do that, too, on a walk afterwards. And I won&#8217;t. I won&#8217;t. I will do my outline. And if goood intentions can&#8217;t spur me into action, I&#8217;ll do my accounts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are, when I come to think of it, the main reasons for my lack of success in life. I&#8217;ve just finished two long magazine pieces, and should have spent yesterday writing a book outline. Instead, I sat down to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}