{"id":3,"date":"2009-12-08T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sam.tregar.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2010-01-02T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:20:12","slug":"beyond-all-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/beyond-all-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond All Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve got a blog.\u00c2\u00a0 The reason is pretty simple &#8211; I can&#8217;t find anyone who will pay for my tech writing.\u00c2\u00a0 Every site and magazine that ever paid for my work is essentially out of business.\u00c2\u00a0 Aside from the terrible economy in general I suspect that what&#8217;s really killed the market for my writing is people writing for free on their blogs.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So, if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t really my first blog though &#8211; I used to write semi-regularly in <a href=\"http:\/\/use.perl.org\/~samtregar\/journal\/\">my journal at perl.org<\/a> but that doesn&#8217;t seem worth continuing.\u00c2\u00a0 I no longer program in Perl exclusively &#8211; my latest project is all Python and I spend at least 90% of my day-job hours on it.\u00c2\u00a0 Much like my Perl journal I intend to keep this blog mostly technical &#8211; if you want to know about my cats you&#8217;ll have to find me on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, an exciting article about reverse-engineering precinct maps during the 2008 election!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve got a blog.\u00c2\u00a0 The reason is pretty simple &#8211; I can&#8217;t find anyone who will pay for my tech writing.\u00c2\u00a0 Every site and magazine that ever paid for my work is essentially out of business.\u00c2\u00a0 Aside from the terrible economy in general I suspect that what&#8217;s really killed the market for my writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sam.tregar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}