{"id":1831,"date":"2007-11-01T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T00:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1831"},"modified":"2008-01-10T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T15:12:01","slug":"books-writing-code-and-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1831","title":{"rendered":"Books, Writing, Code, and Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the database is coming along nicely, though I don&#8217;t think writing code counts towards my November writing goals.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the database has all the administrative functions I wanted to add. Although it could use a few tweaks, it does everything I wanted: I can search by author, title, series, genre, or year. I can enter new books, edit existing books, and delete books.<\/p>\n<p>Last function to be added is going to require a lot of grunt work, and that will be linking individual book reviews to the database.<\/p>\n<p>I got up early this morning and wrote for about 20 minutes before work. Revised through chapter <strike>two<\/strike> one. I&#8217;m going to try and get out of bed a little earlier each morning, so I can write for a few minutes longer each morning. I figure this will be easier after daylight savings time ends.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we had our traditional number of trick-or-treaters last night: 0. At least we save every year on candy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM the First<\/strong>:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting, the revisions I&#8217;m doing. Since I just wrote without thinking, coming back after more than a year, it&#8217;s pretty easy to see the problems in the text. So far, the biggest issue is that I had very few details: I hadn&#8217;t actually described any of the characters, so they were simply amorphous beings without height, weight, or (for the most part) style. Easy enough to fix though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the database is coming along nicely, though I don&#8217;t think writing code counts towards my November writing goals. As of now, the database has all the administrative functions I wanted to add. Although it could use a few tweaks, it does everything I wanted: I can search by author, title, series, genre, or year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-tx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}