{"id":30140,"date":"2019-09-02T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T04:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30140"},"modified":"2019-09-02T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T04:28:21","slug":"briefly-with-193900-words-published-this-year-should-i-write-books-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30140","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: With 193,900 words published this year, should I write books instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Words.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30141\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Words.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Words.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Words-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I discovered tonight that I\u2019ve published 193,900 words here this year. For context, the typical popular business book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words. So I\u2019ve written enough to have published several books instead. So the thought occurs to me that maybe I would do well to take a break from here and write a book instead. I don\u2019t know what I think, but it\u2019s an intriguing thought. Let me know if you have any thoughts about that. If I wrote a book right now, what do you think it ought to be about \u2014 based on the things you see me write about. Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered tonight that I\u2019ve published 193,900 words here this year. For context, the typical popular business book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words. So I\u2019ve written enough to have published several books instead. So the thought occurs to me that maybe I would do well to take a break from here and write a <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30140\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7Q8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30142,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140\/revisions\/30142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}