{"id":2113,"date":"2006-02-07T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T23:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/07\/how-not-to-host-a-blog-carnival\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T23:15:49","slug":"how-not-to-host-a-blog-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"How Not To Host A Blog Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How Not To Host A Blog Carnival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, do <em>not <\/em>put off making the big post until the last couple of days. Work on the post gradually, as submissions come in. Like a smart, responsible person. (Also, floss every day and balance your checkbook.)<\/p>\n<p>Second, if you <em>have <\/em>put off making the big post until the last couple of days, <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> ruin the last-minute productivity you usually rely on by coming down with a nasty cold.<\/p>\n<p>Third, if you <em>do <\/em>get a nasty cold, at <em>least <\/em>try to have scheduled the big post for a day when you don&#8217;t have to show up at your paying job, where there&#8217;s a lot of work that can&#8217;t be put off.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, if you <em>do <\/em>have to go to your job, at <em>least <\/em>don&#8217;t forget that you&#8217;ve also promised to spend a couple of hours babysitting on this day, too.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, if you <em>do <\/em>have jobs and babysitting cutting into your precious blogging time, at <em>least <\/em>try not to have your remaining blogging time decimated by an inconsiderately-timed power outage.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230; All of which is to say, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/the-big-fat-carnival\/\">Big Fat Carnival<\/a>, scheduled to premiere today, will be a day late. My sincere apologies to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Not To Host A Blog Carnival First, do not put off making the big post until the last couple of days. Work on the post gradually, as submissions come in. Like a smart, responsible person. (Also, floss every day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff","category-the-big-fat-carnival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}