{"id":1073,"date":"2008-10-19T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2008-10-19T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:45:00","slug":"why-i-am-not-blogging-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Not Blogging Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of substantive posts that I want to write, but I seem to not be getting to them. <\/p>\n<p>Reasons: I am trying to finish a paper to be presented at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarweb.org\"> AAR<\/a>. The easy narrative part is done, and so I am struggling with the theoretical part. Only to complicate things, it&#8217;s a co-written paper (with slides to be projected in sync with the text), and I have to see what my co-author will add, and how it all be integrated. <\/p>\n<p>Are co-written papers a bad idea? Probably, if you both have busy lives and live 1,200 miles apart! <\/p>\n<p>And then I have to finish reading and making notes on a new religious-studies textbook that I am supposed to copy edit and put into InDesign, knowing that the publisher and the general editor will be at AAR and will expect me to have intelligent things to say. <\/p>\n<p>There are some posts (more to come) about M.&#8217;s and my Yellowstone trip on <a href=\"http:\/\/natureblog.blogspot.com\/\">the other blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Expect more here, one of these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of substantive posts that I want to write, but I seem to not be getting to them. Reasons: I am trying to finish a paper to be presented at the AAR. The easy narrative part is done, and so I am struggling with the theoretical part. Only to complicate things, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1080,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1080","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":0},"title":"Midway through AAR","author":"Chas S. 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And I am backed up on reading papers for The Pomegranate, but at least that backlog means that papers are coming in. My goal is to finish the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":564,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=564","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":2},"title":"More AAR bloggingI have plumbing\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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Steered by Cat McEarchern, organizer of the last two Conferences on\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":311,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=311","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":4},"title":"AAR-SBL Musings, take 1 I\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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