{"id":7815,"date":"2010-06-28T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7815"},"modified":"2010-06-28T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T21:27:44","slug":"remotely-running-after-my-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/remotely-running-after-my-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Remotely Running After My Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/18th_century_dowser.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/18th_century_dowser.jpg?resize=314%2C494&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"18th_century_dowser.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"smalltext\"><em>[Image of 18th-century dowser from Wikipedia&#8230; Wonder if it&#8217;s sized to fit?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be computerless much of this week. Which presents me with a convenient dilemma &#8212; to wit, how to do a <a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/about-whiskey-river-fridays\/\"><em>whiskey river<\/em> Friday<\/a> post?<\/p>\n<p>You may be thinking: How, exactly, will this be &#8220;convenient&#8221;? Sounds rather like a pain, in fact. (Also a bit presumptuous. There can&#8217;t be <em>that<\/em> many people who know this Friday series even exists!)<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I&#8217;m curious to know how easily this will be accomplished. Options considered and rejected so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emailing a post via WordPress&#8217;s own built-in feature (limited features)<\/li>\n<li>Installing and using the Postie WordPress plugin (not working from Blackberry email address)<\/li>\n<li>Posting via Posterous.com (ditto)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, I guess I&#8217;ll try what I&#8217;m doing now: using the Blackberry WordPress app. Tedious entering mass quantities of text, but I guess since the Friday posts are mostly copy-n-paste anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a test, using the poem in last year&#8217;s edition of the Poetry Daily e-newsletter for today&#8217;s date:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How to Find Water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Easier if there are springs.<\/p>\n<p>Before sunrise, lie down flat where the<br \/>\nsearch is to be made. Place<br \/>\nchin on the earth, so that your<br \/>\nsight will not range<br \/>\nhigher than it ought. Then<br \/>\ndig.<\/p>\n<p>Valleys receive rains most<br \/>\nabundantly and snow\u00a0is squirreled by forests. Springs<br \/>\nrun underground and<br \/>\nburst forth in the middle of<br \/>\nplains, protected<br \/>\nby the shade of trees.<\/p>\n<p>Melting, it filters through<br \/>\nfissures in the ground and this<br \/>\nreaches the foot of the<br \/>\nmountain, from which gushing<br \/>\nsprings come belching out. The earth<br \/>\ngives moisture under the influence<br \/>\nof heat, as a body emits sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Taste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Keith Waldrop, from <em>Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;d that look? &#8216;Twas a bear to enter, even with copy-n-paste: the (highly idiosyncratic!) line breaks went missing and had to be entered manually, toggling back and forth into email and the WP app to check and correct them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And I still won&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s <em>right<\/em> until I can see it in a real browser!<\/p>\n<p>Have a feeling Friday&#8217;s post will be very short, ha ha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Image of 18th-century dowser from Wikipedia&#8230; Wonder if it&#8217;s sized to fit?] I&#8217;m going to be computerless much of this week. Which presents me with a convenient dilemma &#8212; to wit, how to do a whiskey river Friday post? You may be thinking: How, exactly, will this be &#8220;convenient&#8221;? 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