I wrote a lot of words today.<\/p>\n
My brain hamster is really tired. I worked that poor hamster. I made him get up in the spinning wheel. I made him run fast faster fastest<\/i>. I wouldn’t let the hamster rest. The hamster ran and ran and ran.<\/p>\n
The end results I was pleased with.<\/p>\n
Some of it was catalog copy, about things like Twilight<\/i>. Yes, the Stephenie Meyer novel. Some of it was sales articles.<\/p>\n
I ended up with a decent word count at the end of the day — a little shy of five thousand words.<\/p>\n
I even used the word on today’s Merriam-Webster page-a-day calendar. It just… slipped right in there. Tomorrow’s word, too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Ah, the things that amuse me.<\/p>\n
And then, I free-associated some php code, which I’ve just gone and implemented.<\/p>\n
After writing two weeks ago about WordPress and Twitter<\/a> and the plug-ins I was using, I decided to give the Twitter Tools<\/a> plug-in a fair shake.<\/p>\n One of the things I’m having it do, which I freely admit is an idea I’ve stolen from the dozen friends or so who are already doing this, is to let the plug-in take a day’s worth of Tweets and turn them into an archival blog post.<\/p>\n However, I didn’t want them showing up in<\/i> the blog. I know, I know, sounds crazy. What’s the point of turning them into blog posts, if I don’t want them seen?<\/i> Well, it’s just what I want<\/i>, okay? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n So I made a modification to the WordPress loop, to have Twitter archive posts excluded. To do that, I created a new category I called Twitterpation<\/a>, and all of the tweet archive posts get assigned to that category.<\/p>\n (LiveJournal readers, it’s also set up to exclude there as well.)<\/p>\n Unfortunately, if you’re reading on the RSS feed, I can’t exclude the Tweet posts there. There are some limitations. Yes, I could edit the WordPress core code directly, but that’s also a fool’s errand, because an upgrade will wipe out the change. :-\/<\/p>\n So really, I’ve created phantom content. Or something. \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n That’s Thursday. Tomorrow’s Friday. More writing to do, a freelance article to finish, and the weekend on the doorstep.<\/p>\n Such is life. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote a lot of words today. My brain hamster is really tired. I worked that poor hamster. I made him get up in the spinning wheel. I made him run fast faster fastest. I wouldn’t let the hamster rest. The hamster ran and ran and ran. The end results I was pleased with. SomeContinue reading “On the Thursday View”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[4093,4096,4124,4102],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-life","tag-wordpress","tag-work","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}