{"id":4305,"date":"2023-11-08T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2023-11-08T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:32:35","slug":"why-didnt-i-think-of-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t I think of this before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greater themes of my life has been\u00a0<em>if no one is letting me do this I&#8217;m just going to do it myself<\/em>. Can&#8217;t get a job at a newspaper? Start your own. Can&#8217;t get a job on a TV show? Start your own!<\/p>\n<p>I have no handyman skills, though I am Mr. DIY. No one has bought you the gift you want? Buy it yourself. No one has planned your birthday party? Do it yourself! I&#8217;ve self-published books, printed my own CDs, and funded my own concerts. Like, an unholy number of times.<\/p>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve been trying to get my biography included as an article on Wikipedia. I may be in the minority on this, especially among teachers, but personally I think Wikipedia is the greatest source of information on the Internet. It&#8217;s basically the encyclopedia I would have eventually written myself, amirite?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t need to write the\u00a0<em>whole<\/em> encyclopedia, just the one article I want to see. And now it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?page_id=4301\">here<\/a>, on my own website, the one I produce myself. Mike O&#8217;Connell, maker of content.<\/p>\n<p>My Wikipedia page now lives not at Wikipedia but at the top of the blog I&#8217;ve published for nearly 10 years. That it took me 10 years to think of this is a bit disappointing, but hey, I&#8217;ve been busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greater themes of my life has been\u00a0if no one is letting me do this I&#8217;m just going to do it myself. Can&#8217;t get a job at a newspaper? Start your own. Can&#8217;t get a job on a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}