{"id":1716,"date":"2009-07-06T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2009-07-06T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:36:10","slug":"mid-year-tally-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Year Tally 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year an acquaintance of mine gave a mid-year tally of her publications, writings, movies watched, books read, etc. and it inspired me to look at the numbers for my year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m repeating\u00c2\u00a0my mid-year tally this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>read\u00c2\u00a030 books<\/li>\n<li>watched\u00c2\u00a073 movies<\/li>\n<li>wrote 25 book reviews (2 published)<\/li>\n<li>wrote\u00c2\u00a00 poems<\/li>\n<li>wrote\u00c2\u00a0? short stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last year I found I was poor at keeping track of such things.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been much easier to keep track of the movies I see and the books I read.\u00c2\u00a0 Keeping track of the short stories I&#8217;ve read is an impossible task.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LibraryThing has been a great tool for me this year for book tracking.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a much better idea of exactly how many books I have in my TBR pile and I can tell with certainty that I&#8217;m not making much progress on it.\u00c2\u00a0 This year I&#8217;ve obtained (some borrowed from the library) 54 books but since I&#8217;ve read 30 that leaves me with a surplus on the pile.\u00c2\u00a0 Gotta get reading (and doing some less obtaining).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also got to finish the new short stories I&#8217;ve been working on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year an acquaintance of mine gave a mid-year tally of her publications, writings, movies watched, books read, etc. and it inspired me to look at the numbers for my year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m repeating\u00c2\u00a0my mid-year tally this year. read\u00c2\u00a030 books watched\u00c2\u00a073 movies wrote 25 book reviews (2 published) wrote\u00c2\u00a00 poems wrote\u00c2\u00a0? short stories Last year I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1716\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid-Year Tally 2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tally","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}