{"id":61,"date":"2006-07-16T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-06-19T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T13:39:42","slug":"the-tenth-pillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"the tenth pillar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I write without a plan.  A friend once asked me if I wrote with the front of my brain, and I said, \"No, I write by the seat of my pants.\"  But I have known for years that Vicki and SarahBeth would end up where they are (well, SarahBeth isn't quite in her position yet, but she will be very soon), even when I didn't know how they'd get there.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>The Diamond Age<\/em>, by Neal Stephenson, was a big influence on how I saw this, and I've now added it to the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/tenpillars.drupalgardens.com\/\">Ten Pillars of Modern Literature<\/a> (it is the tenth entry, in fact, but this is not to say that there won't be more entries at some point).  <\/p>\n<p>However, since this is a bit of a spoiler, I urge you to get and read <em>The Diamond Age<\/em> first (unless you already have), and then read my <a HREF=\"http:\/\/tenpillars.drupalgardens.com\/content\/diamond-age\">comment<\/a> about it.<\/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%2F61&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%2F61&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>I write without a plan. A friend once asked me if I wrote with the front of my brain, and I said, &#8220;No, I write by the seat of my pants.&#8221; But I have known for years that Vicki and SarahBeth would end up where they are (well, SarahBeth isn&#8217;t quite in her position yet, [&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":[111],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}