{"id":808,"date":"2006-11-02T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinfoell.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/02\/it-doesnt-have-to-be-perfect"},"modified":"2006-11-02T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T15:30:00","slug":"it-doesnt-have-to-be-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/jessi\/2006\/11\/it-doesnt-have-to-be-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"It doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1212\/1386\/1600\/nano_06_icon_120x240.jpg.0.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1212\/1386\/400\/nano_06_icon_120x240.jpg.0.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;m participating in the National Novel Writing Month. And people are asking me why do this? Why did I run a marathon? 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