{"id":90,"date":"2005-08-29T06:54:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T11:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2005-08-29T01:13:16","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T06:13:16","slug":"confusing-planning-with-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/08\/29\/confusing-planning-with-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusing planning with doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Avery wrote a great column in The Star Press (Indiana):  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/articles\/5\/045600-7015-004.html\">Confusing planning with doing<\/a>.  It involved genealogy research and the makings of a good novel. <\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/articles\/5\/045600-7015-004.html\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All these things have been enjoyable and make me think that I am writing my novel. But after a while, reality sits me down under a strong light, slaps me in the face a couple of times and makes me confess that I&#8217;m lying.<\/p>\n<p>There is no novel.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I&#8217;ve filled a few manuscript pages, but after each tentative start I decide that I need more information before proceeding. So I quit my keyboard and pick up yet another book. All this planning with meager results has given me an understanding of why diet books are perennial best-sellers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d swear he wrote that column about me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Avery wrote a great column in The Star Press (Indiana):  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/articles\/5\/045600-7015-004.html\">Confusing planning with doing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}