{"id":1342,"date":"2010-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/06\/29\/1281\/"},"modified":"2010-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T22:00:00","slug":"1281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/06\/29\/1281\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Gyford \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gyford.com\/phil\/writing\/2009\/12\/18\/finishability.php\">Finishability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;But those old-fashioned constraints of printing can also be a benefit. There\u2019s something satisfying, predictable and achievable about a more-or-less fixed amount of stuff to read appearing on a regular schedule.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when faced with most news websites one of the reasons I don\u2019t spend much time reading them is because I know I can never finish, no matter how much I read. So, once I\u2019ve read the front page headlines and realised the world hasn\u2019t ended, why read much more? I\u2019ll never finish it all anyway.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/powazek.com\/posts\/2470\">Derek Powazek<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gyford.com\/phil\/writing\/2010\/06\/09\/todays-guardian.php\">Today&#8217;s Guardian<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Gyford \u2013 Finishability: &#8222;But those old-fashioned constraints of printing can also be a benefit. There\u2019s something satisfying, predictable and achievable about a more-or-less fixed amount of stuff to read appearing on a regular schedule. For example, when faced with most news websites one of the reasons I don\u2019t spend much time reading them is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}