{"id":820,"date":"2006-12-23T20:54:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T00:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=820"},"modified":"2006-12-23T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T00:54:21","slug":"180000-words-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"180,000 words served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a brief break from polishing the new chapter 2 of <cite>Accountability Frankenstein<\/cite>, I copied and pasted every entry of this blog and then counted words.  It&#8217;s 210,000 words in about 720 entries&#8230; but it&#8217;s less than that, because some entries are in more than one category, and the copy\/paste job included the tags around entries, etc.  A conservative guesstimate is about 180,000 words that I&#8217;ve written in this blog since the first entry in March 2001 (an even 2100 days ago), or just about 86 words per day (the conservative guesstime, remember).  It adds up.<br \/>\nSome of this writing is informal, of course, but that small exercise shows how clearly blogging creates an avenue for any academic to become a public intellectual in the way that Russell Jacoby asks us to. And I&#8217;m not even among the more prolific academic bloggers! (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\">Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/a> for the most obvious example.)<br \/>\nSo can <em>you<\/em> write an average of 100 words a day? If so, you can write the equivalent of 2 books over 5 years.  It&#8217;s not hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a brief break from polishing the new chapter 2 of Accountability Frankenstein, I copied and pasted every entry of this blog and then counted words. It&#8217;s 210,000 words in about 720 entries&#8230; but it&#8217;s less than that, because some entries are in more than one category, and the copy\/paste job included the tags around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-editing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-de","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}