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  "description": "This feed contains the 20 most recent of my published blog entries.",
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      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/question-of-the-day/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/question-of-the-day/",
      "title": "Question of the Day",
      "content_text": "Yesterday, at the coffeehouse I stumbled upon a fun little game...",
      "date_published": "2026-02-01T02:33:14+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "introspection"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/tagging-rules/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/tagging-rules/",
      "title": "Tagging Rules",
      "content_text": "I try to use tags on this site with some intentionality. This is what I intend.",
      "date_published": "2026-01-03T00:25:14+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "website",
        "writing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/the-perfect-week/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/the-perfect-week/",
      "title": "The Perfect Week",
      "content_text": "This week has been no less than perfect.",
      "date_published": "2025-08-03T03:28:28+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "poetry",
        "marriage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/little-island/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/little-island/",
      "title": "Little Island",
      "content_text": "Suburban sprawl draws near.",
      "date_published": "2025-07-19T21:33:54+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "poetry",
        "two-word"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/how-shall-i-decide/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/how-shall-i-decide/",
      "title": "How Shall I Decide?",
      "content_text": "I deserve my time.   It's the only thing I have,    Shouldn't it be mine?",
      "date_published": "2025-07-11T17:45:37+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "poetry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/quest-for-the-eureka-of-all-my-eurekas/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/quest-for-the-eureka-of-all-my-eurekas/",
      "title": "Quest for Eureka of all Eurekas",
      "content_text": "Charles Bukowski asked: “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”",
      "date_published": "2025-06-18T22:04:51+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "opinion",
        "career",
        "introspection",
        "learning",
        "motivation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/one-day-of-many/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/one-day-of-many/",
      "title": "One Day of Many",
      "content_text": "Something approaches, a monster thru fog   No reason to try, it cannot be stopped.   Against it I stand while others, they jog.   And fight thru I will, how else should I opt?",
      "date_published": "2025-06-11T01:21:09+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "sonnet",
        "motivation",
        "productivity",
        "writing",
        "poetry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/relaxation-may/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/relaxation-may/",
      "title": "Relaxation May...",
      "content_text": "May has been a weirdly relaxing month for me.",
      "date_published": "2025-05-25T11:31:26+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "writing",
        "ambition",
        "debt",
        "family",
        "financial",
        "nature",
        "opinion",
        "outdoors",
        "productivity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/napowrimo-2025-challenge-complete/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/napowrimo-2025-challenge-complete/",
      "title": "NaPoWriMo 2025 Challenge Complete",
      "content_text": "In a blog post published at the beginning of this month I talked about deciding to take a stab at writing poetry. This is a retrospective of a month of writing poetry daily.",
      "date_published": "2025-04-30T18:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "Challenge Accepted",
        "NaPoWriMo",
        "haiku",
        "learning",
        "poetry",
        "writing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/man-made-meadow-moment/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/man-made-meadow-moment/",
      "title": "Man-Made Meadow Moment",
      "content_text": "A poem composed of connected haiku.",
      "date_published": "2025-04-25T18:19:11+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "haiku",
        "man-made meadow moment"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/microblogs-and-refactors-and-feeds-oh-my/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/microblogs-and-refactors-and-feeds-oh-my/",
      "title": "Microblogs, and Refactors, and Feeds... OH MY!",
      "content_text": "I have made a considerable number of changes to this site behind the scenes since my last update in February.",
      "date_published": "2025-04-15T04:56:52+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "django",
        "news",
        "poetry",
        "python",
        "website"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/never-thought-id-write-poetry/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/never-thought-id-write-poetry/",
      "title": "Never Thought I'd Write Poetry",
      "content_text": "I've always hated writing, and that dislike was reinforced by my schooling. I had built up some resistance to the idea of writing so I never dreamed of writing poetry. I've written at least 18 haiku in my first week and plan to continue writing them.",
      "date_published": "2025-04-04T15:18:27+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "haiku",
        "Challenge Accepted",
        "books",
        "learning",
        "opinion",
        "story",
        "turning point",
        "website",
        "writing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/student-loan-providers-are-evil/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/student-loan-providers-are-evil/",
      "title": "Student Loan Providers are Evil",
      "content_text": "It is literally a never ending treadmill and I can see why so many people are unable to get off.",
      "date_published": "2025-03-28T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "debt",
        "financial",
        "student loans"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/there-are-a-thousand-things-to-do/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/there-are-a-thousand-things-to-do/",
      "title": "There are a thousand things to do...",
      "content_text": "So I am wasting my time writing this blogpost",
      "date_published": "2025-03-21T22:37:55+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "productivity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/paganism-in-christendom/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/paganism-in-christendom/",
      "title": "Paganism in Christendom",
      "content_text": "Beyond the fact that there is scant support for the trinity in scripture, beyond the fact that it is more akin to pagan traditions than to the traditions of God's (previously) chosen people... it doesn't make sense!",
      "date_published": "2025-03-17T10:15:18+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "christianity",
        "opinion",
        "religion",
        "trinity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/typing-experiment-resumed/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/typing-experiment-resumed/",
      "title": "Typing Experiment Resumed",
      "content_text": "I stumbled across a project this week that I had abandoned shortly after completing it a couple years ago. Back in 2022 I had read a book titled The First 20 Hours in which the author...",
      "date_published": "2025-03-07T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "Challenge Accepted",
        "Colemak",
        "Ferris Sweep",
        "book",
        "keyboard",
        "office",
        "typing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/making-progress-and-learning-django/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/making-progress-and-learning-django/",
      "title": "Making Progress and Learning Django",
      "content_text": "My back log of features and improvements continues to grow. And at some point I need to start filling the site out with some real content... but, progress!",
      "date_published": "2025-02-28T04:47:33+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "books",
        "data migration",
        "django",
        "learning",
        "news",
        "python",
        "website"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/we-will-be-directors-someday/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/we-will-be-directors-someday/",
      "title": "We Will be Directors Someday",
      "content_text": "Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable-- those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement...",
      "date_published": "2025-02-14T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": [
        "ambition",
        "career",
        "office",
        "story",
        "turning point"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/opinions-matter-share-yours/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/opinions-matter-share-yours/",
      "title": "Opinions Matter, Share Yours",
      "content_text": "I am sitting in my Boss's Boss's office with 10 people that I don't know very well. Not yet at least. I'm wondering why I have been included in this meeting, We're discussing whether or not the organi...",
      "date_published": "2025-01-29T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "id": "http://tomharner.com/blog/the-little-barista/",
      "url": "http://tomharner.com/blog/the-little-barista/",
      "title": "The Little Barista",
      "content_text": "I'm standing in my kitchen searching for the audiobook that had sounded so interesting only a few days ago.... something about how our perceptions define our reality. This week, over a fo...",
      "date_published": "2025-01-11T18:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": []
    }
  ]
}