{"id":910,"date":"2008-02-23T05:35:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=910"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:37","slug":"bad-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Bad Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;ve written my March column for <em>The Huntsville Times<\/em>, and I do a word count and find out that I&#8217;m pushing the maximum limit of 680 words.<\/p>\n<p>No problem. I relentlessly self-edit (a skill that all of you&#8211;some more than others&#8211;should practice each and every day), and I whittle it down. I redo the word count. I stare in horror:<\/p>\n<p>666.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking: better add a few words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;ve written my March column for The Huntsville Times, and I do a word count and find out that I&#8217;m pushing the maximum limit of 680 words. No problem. I relentlessly self-edit (a skill&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20,92,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-huntsville","category-huntsville-times-community-columns","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9459,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}