{"id":1562,"date":"2013-10-01T00:08:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/10\/01\/save-as-draft\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T06:34:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T05:34:58","slug":"save-as-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/10\/01\/save-as-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Save as draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rule concerning blogging: a post has to be finished and published in a single sitting. With an absurdly active brain like mine, the subject matter changes like a kaleidoscope; yesterday&rsquo;s topics ofter seem nonsense today and saving a post for later inevitably means it&rsquo;s never going to be finished.<\/p>\n<p>My drafts folder stopped growing once I realized the stuff there is <em>never<\/em> going to get published simply because it went out of date. I operate on a strict rule now: you start it &#8211; you finish it &#8211; you publish it.<\/p>\n<p>Or trash it. But never leave work laying around, unresolved.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The same principle applies to code, probably. Every time so far I used <em>git stash<\/em> I ended up rewriting the code from scratch later simply because it was easier than trying to figure out which parts of the half-finished contraption still need work and what exactly did I have in mind while writing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rule concerning blogging: a post has to be finished and published in a single sitting. With an absurdly active brain like mine, the subject matter changes like a kaleidoscope; yesterday&rsquo;s topics ofter seem nonsense today and saving a post for later inevitably means it&rsquo;s never going to be finished. My drafts folder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}