{"id":66,"date":"2004-09-21T00:58:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/index.php\/2004\/09\/21\/an-artistic-minyan\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T23:31:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T05:31:31","slug":"an-artistic-minyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2004\/09\/an-artistic-minyan\/","title":{"rendered":"An artistic minyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><font face=\"Courier New, Courier, mono\">Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock<\/font><\/h6>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\"><strong>Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004. <\/strong>Yes, it&#8217;s taken most of the month to return to the iBook and these Bricks. It was getting futile. Well, writing for the 12 or 13 hits (14 is a minyan for Joni Mitchell) is a matter of degree of futility: Some days and weeks it&#8217;s worthwhile and other times it&#8217;s better to do some chores around the house, get ready for work or read. So why am I back today? I was working on a Web site I just volunteered to run and figured out another shortcut on Dreamweaver, the Web design software I use, to upload updated pages. (The manual that came with it, for a change, actually is more clear, organized and easy to understand than the third-party books on it and Internet page design in general. At least for me)<\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\"> -30-<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004. Yes, it&#8217;s taken most of the month to return to the iBook and these Bricks. It was getting futile. Well, writing for the 12 or 13 hits (14 is a minyan for Joni Mitchell) is a matter of degree of futility: Some days and weeks it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-difficulties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":80,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2004\/06\/14-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":66,"position":0},"title":"14 people","author":"Ben S. 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