{"id":550,"date":"2004-05-17T17:50:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=550"},"modified":"2007-02-22T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T13:57:57","slug":"excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, Excuses&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\">Instapundit<\/a>, with Lileks&#8217; encouragement, took 20 minutes off the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/\">Lileks<\/a> himself took a month near-holiday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/archives20040509.shtml#78131\">Teachout<\/a> has stopped blogging on weekends, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\">Cosh<\/a> hasn&#8217;t updated his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\/old\/hockey04.html\">hockey page<\/a> for a week, which I know you&#8217;re all busted up about, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2blowhards.com\">the Blowhards<\/a> have been backfilling with guest posters. You people griping that I haven&#8217;t updated for ten days are so last year. Sloth &#8212; it&#8217;s the new black!<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m making it up to you below. In spades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instapundit, with Lileks&#8217; encouragement, took 20 minutes off the other day, Lileks himself took a month near-holiday, Teachout has stopped blogging on weekends, Cosh hasn&#8217;t updated his hockey page for a week, which I know you&#8217;re all busted up about, and even the Blowhards have been backfilling with guest posters. You people griping that I <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=550' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-navel-gazing","category-21-id","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}