{"id":34408,"date":"2023-12-31T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34408"},"modified":"2023-12-31T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:23:02","slug":"i-used-to-have-readers-here-i-used-to-post-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34408","title":{"rendered":"I used to have readers here &#8211; I used to post all the time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it was devoting 2 hours a day to trying to learn French five years ago that stifled my old habit of writing posts. For much of the 17 year history of Lincolndemocrat.com I put that and more into cranking out posts, often &#8211; usually not carefully proof read to an uncertain audience. I had begun putting in those kinds of hours even earlier in 1999 when I created an early website which also remains, www.snowbizz.com. That website was created when I found that Microsoft had made software called Frontpage that didn&#8217;t require learning HTML script writing. It was a drag and drop program and you can see how I used it for the next ten years until Microsoft stopped supporting it after which I stopped being able to add new snow sculptures or books on my reading list to it. Still It remains and I plunder it occasionally when I want to find something quickly and harp about it again for my column in the Duluth Reader or even here in old posts no one looks at anymore&#8230;&#8230;except me when again I want to review or plunder old material.<\/p>\n<p>God learning a new language is hard&#8230;&#8230;.especially if like me you want to be almost as good at it as a native speaker. That will be ten years from now if I don&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n<p>This is Old Years day just ahead of News Years Day. I last posted something here on November 27th. My last five or so columns for the Reader haven&#8217;t been linked to here yet. That&#8217;s about all I&#8217;ve uploaded for a couple years now. Yet almost every day I have a half dozen things I tell myself I should comment on. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stop here&#8230;&#8230;.having said almost nothing I thought I should get off my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it was devoting 2 hours a day to trying to learn French five years ago that stifled my old habit of writing posts&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34411,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408\/revisions\/34411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}