{"id":2910,"date":"2022-12-16T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2022-12-16T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:27:52","slug":"and-still-going-and-still-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"And still going&#8230;and still going&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At present,\u00a0 5:26 pm Friday 12\/15\/2022, I&#8217;m working on page 486 of 813.\u00a0 The total word count is down to 179,041.\u00a0 The high in word count was I think in the 183,000+ range.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it ever swelled to 185K but I didn&#8217;t check every minute.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s still stuff to be added and stuff to be taken out.\u00a0 This round of revision includes a lot of\u00a0 word-removals.\u00a0 Most are singles, some are multiples, and a few are &#8220;That whole paragraph: OUT!&#8221;\u00a0 Ideally, from the feel of it, this needed an overall shrinkage of about 10% .\u00a0\u00a0 In other words, 18,000 words gone.\u00a0\u00a0 Very roughly, that&#8217;s one word out of every line of the ms, 23 per page.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not on target for that amount of shrinkage, and there&#8217;s still a little to be added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At present,\u00a0 5:26 pm Friday 12\/15\/2022, I&#8217;m working on page 486 of 813.\u00a0 The total word count is down to 179,041.\u00a0 The high in word count was I think in the 183,000+ range.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it ever swelled to 185K but I didn&#8217;t check every minute.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s still stuff to be added and stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,45],"tags":[106,51],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horngard","category-revisions","tag-contents","tag-revision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}