{"id":422,"date":"2009-06-19T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2009-06-19T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:40:22","slug":"finger-drumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/finger-drumming\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger Drumming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another live update from Planet DFMamea.<\/p>\n<p>Finished a draft earlier this afternoon, saved it, did a quickie back-up of all my working directories and documents to a flash drive &#8211; and the Powerbook had a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kernel_panic\" target=\"_blank\">kernel panic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Time for a full backup.  Forty-five minutes, it said.  That was an hour ago.  In that time I&#8217;ve played fetch with <b>The Dog<\/b>, re-upped <b>The Chickens<\/b>, and picked up <i>WALL-E<\/i> for some family Friday night viewing.  (The children have seen it, us adults haven&#8217;t &#8211; and since we adults are paying, we choose.)  I also <a href=\"http:\/\/police.govt.nz\/service\/road\/roadwatch.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> an idiot on a Vespa.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, the backup&#8217;s been sitting at 25 minutes for the past ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch that:  sixteen minutes, it says now.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose I could power up the Windoze laptop.<\/p>\n<p>But would I still feel like A WRITER?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another live update from Planet DFMamea. Finished a draft earlier this afternoon, saved it, did a quickie back-up of all my working directories and documents to a flash drive &#8211; and the Powerbook had a bit of a kernel panic: Time for a full backup. Forty-five minutes, it said. That was an hour ago. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/finger-drumming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finger Drumming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}