{"id":4469,"date":"2010-12-30T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2011-01-01T00:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T23:13:48","slug":"i-start-my-50th-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"I start my 50th diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several failed attempts, I managed to start keeping a diary when I was 12 and my first entry was on Sunday 31 December 1961. Since then, I&#8217;ve never missed <em>a single day<\/em> which means that I&#8217;ve written around 18,000 entries and that in the New Year I&#8217;ll start my 50th diary. Why do I do it? I&#8217;ve tried to explain that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FAQ.html#Diary\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise, a journalist &#8211; Steven Bowron of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/\">&#8220;Sunday Post&#8221;<\/a> newspaper in Scotland &#8211; picked up on my diary-writing marathon from my web site and plans to write a feature on it at the turn of the year when people sometimes think of starting a diary. This morning, we had a friendly half-hour conversation about how and why I write my diary and the sort of material that it covers. I will now send him some selected entries.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/diary1.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Roger and his 50 diaries<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/diary2.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Now, what happened today?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several failed attempts, I managed to start keeping a diary when I was 12 and my first entry was on Sunday 31 December 1961. Since then, I&#8217;ve never missed a single day which means that I&#8217;ve written around 18,000 entries and that in the New Year I&#8217;ll start my 50th diary. Why do I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}