{"id":1493,"date":"2003-07-26T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2021-05-24T00:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T04:37:38","slug":"excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/26\/excuses-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/blogathonbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; A lot of fellow bloggers have put great thought into planning out today. They&#8217;ve created separate Blogathon 2003 pages, they will be writing about various themes throughout the day, they have elaborate stunts to perform if they get enough pledges.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I didn&#8217;t feel like creating a whole different blog page, or to even change my template for the day.  About the most I did is create this separate category, so as to differentiate these entries. I did come up with a theme, but I never really planned on sticking with it to stringently, and that was to write limericks throughout the day. &#8220;Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time,&#8221; he said. defensively. At least I don&#8217;t think anyone else is doing it, but, yeah, it really isn&#8217;t all that &#8220;sexy&#8221; is it. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be relying on that gimmick anyway\u2026because:<blockquote style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Blogathon&#8217;s now underway<br>with 48 entries all the day.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Though the fun&#8217;s just begun<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I feel like I&#8217;m done:<br>I&#8217;ve run out of things to say<\/i><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A lot of fellow bloggers have put great thought into planning out today. They&#8217;ve created separate Blogathon 2003 pages, they will be writing about various themes throughout the day, they have elaborate stunts to perform if they get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/26\/excuses-excuses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}