{"id":880,"date":"2003-02-09T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/09\/880.html"},"modified":"2003-02-09T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2003-02-09T13:27:46","slug":"starting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/09\/starting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I suppose the worst part of starting a blog (if that's the appropriate name for this Tohu Bohu) is the pressure on that first entry. It should be wise, witty, surprising, kicky, just a bit sexy, and give everybody in the world a reason to check the damn' thing six times a day for the rest of their lives.\n<p>\n<p>This ain't it.\n<p>\n<p>I'll settle in over the next six or seven years, and then go back and write the first entry. It'll be better that way. In the meantime, Thomas Friedman, whose pro-war views I find persuasive despite myself, write in this morning's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/02\/09\/opinion\/09FRIE.html\">New York Times<\/a> (registration required, sort of) that France shouldn't be on the Security Council, and that India should be. His argument is that India is a serious nation, and France ain't, which is not a good one, but the truth is that France is only on the Council because it's a nuclear power, which isn't reason enough (certainly not when India, Pakistan and North Korea are nuclear powers). India should be a permanent member of the Security Council because it's absurd that it isn't. So say I.\n<p>Thank you,<br>\n-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose the worst part of starting a blog (if that&#8217;s the appropriate name for this Tohu Bohu) is the pressure on that first entry. It should be wise, witty, surprising, kicky, just a bit sexy, and give everybody in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}