{"id":3,"date":"2007-05-05T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T18:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-11-29T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T18:21:48","slug":"why-this-why-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Why this, why now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Phiala (Sarah), and I have a problem, or actually several:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have a penchant for finding extremely neat things and not taking proper notes. A conversation with me has frequent, &#8220;Well, I read somewhere&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;I saw this neat website&#8230;&#8221; but no followthrough.<\/li>\n<li>I  tend to get carried away with projects. I&#8217;d rather plan a book than write a few paragraphs, and thus nothing ever happens. You know, writing a few paragraphs does NOT mean that I can&#8217;t ever write the book, and actually would help in assembling a draft if I get to that point.<\/li>\n<li>I have lots of great plans for articles for my web pages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\">Stringpage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomicum.com\">Astronomicum<\/a> (and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionaldiversity.org\">FunctionalDiversity.org<\/a> but that&#8217;s rather different) that I never get to. Again, grand plans but no execution. Stringpage is 11, and doesn&#8217;t have nearly as much neat stuff as I&#8217;d like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And thus, a blog. I can write and illustrate shorter articles and notes and commentary on string, books, research projects that catch my interest, hopefully without getting caught in the &#8220;bigger and better&#8221; trap. Quick and informal, with the understanding that things may be formalized later.<\/p>\n<p>Some possible contents: tablet weaving tips; illustrated guide to that horrible fingerloop braiding thing I teach; a quick review of the latest book or website that was too exciting to lose. (And maybe this way I won&#8217;t.) I think it&#8217;s mandatory to include an occasional photo of my cat, too, based on other blogs I like. I also plan to include slightly improved (and possibly illustrated) versions of some of the more informative newsgroup posts I&#8217;ve made over the years.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, I&#8217;ll add something similar to my other websites, but for this trial run I&#8217;ll stick to one location.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Phiala (Sarah), and I have a problem, or actually several: I have a penchant for finding extremely neat things and not taking proper notes. A conversation with me has frequent, &#8220;Well, I read somewhere&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;I saw this neat website&#8230;&#8221; but no followthrough. I tend to get carried away with projects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}