{"id":195,"date":"2008-12-01T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-12-01T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:39:09","slug":"reading-on-paper-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"reading on paper (part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One problem with the mystery stories has been that they are not as easy to print as the novels were.  Each chapter of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.u-town.com\/text\/sane\">A Sane Woman<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.u-town.com\/text\/utown\">U-town<\/A> is in complete in a single file, well-suited to printing. The <A HREF=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?page_id=6\">third novel<\/A> comes in shorter chunks, more like blog posts, but there is also a way of bringing up each chapter in a file.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to figure out how to set up the mystery stories to be more easily printable, with each story complete in a single file.  It is complex, since WordPress puts everything in a database, so I needed to figure out how to get the text back <I>out<\/I> of the database, because if I had separate printable files and then I found a typo (hard to imagine, I know, but it&#8217;s important to plan for the unexpected), I&#8217;d have to fix it in two different places.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I had to figure out how to get the text of each part without the &#8220;this story began here&#8221; link at the top, and without the navigation links at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m nearly there, at least with the first story, so I&#8217;ll let you know.  And meanwhile, there are two <A HREF=\"http:\/\/utownwriting.com\/2008\/stories\/the-college-murder-case-part-seventeen\">new parts<\/A> of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/utownwriting.com\/2008\/stories\/the-college-murder-case-part-one\">The College Murder Case<A>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F195&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F195&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One problem with the mystery stories has been that they are not as easy to print as the novels were. Each chapter of A Sane Woman and U-town is in complete in a single file, well-suited to printing. The third novel comes in shorter chunks, more like blog posts, but there is also a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-writing-now","tag-webtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}