{"id":2329,"date":"2009-06-08T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2009-06-08T21:44:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T21:44:59","slug":"dont_know_when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Know When To Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the important stuff. I fixed the link to the picture in yesterday’s post. Scroll down and get your puppy fix.<\/p>\n

And according to the Times<\/i>, I’m way overdue on abandoning my blog<\/a>. Apparently, one should consider giving up this hobby if one doesn’t land a book deal or cultivate a devoted and readership. I’d be lying if I didn’t have similar dreams back when I started doing this back in 2002, otherwise known as the Internet’s Cambrian Era. But now it’s become habit. It’s weird; I’m not nearly as rigorous about anything else in my life. Just ask the first draft of the novel sitting on my hard drive; the one slowly dying of neglect. And if I stopped doing this, I’d most likely start talking to myself. And I’ll still be doing this even when this blog is a creaky, rheumatic corner of the Internet that never gets any visitors except for the occasional spambot or renegade artificial intelligence looking for a safe place to hide. <\/p>\n

And just to show my appreciation for my readers–all 7 of you–here’s another picture of Mollie and one of her sisters. Mollie’s the one on the left. Or is she on the right? Whatever. Puppies! <\/p>\n

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First, the important stuff. I fixed the link to the picture in yesterday’s post. Scroll down and get your puppy fix. And according to the Times, I’m way overdue on abandoning my blog. Apparently, one should consider giving up this hobby if one doesn’t land a book deal or cultivate a devoted and readership. I’d […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}