{"id":1008,"date":"2009-06-11T13:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2009-06-11T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:54:28","slug":"making-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Making progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a morning spent in the sun, I&#8217;ve just finished reading through what I laughably call the first draft of my thesis; it&#8217;s not so much a draft as the prototype of one. Either way, it&#8217;s 15,000 words that at times seem out of sequence and in need of reworking.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I&#8217;ve more or less made my arguments and most of what is left to do is structural and cosmetic. With one book awaiting me at the library and a few articles in the bag next to me, I should be well on my way to having this thing done and dusted in a few weeks. If I can hit the magical 20,000-word mark by the end of June I&#8217;ll be a rather happy camper, because the psychological pressure will be broken and I can get on with fine-tuning rather than fleshing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a morning spent in the sun, I&#8217;ve just finished reading through what I laughably call the first draft of my thesis; it&#8217;s not so much a draft as the prototype of one. Either way, it&#8217;s 15,000 words that at times seem out of sequence and in need of reworking. Thankfully, I&#8217;ve more or less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}