{"id":142,"date":"2011-07-09T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T09:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-07-09T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T09:11:44","slug":"the-secret-under-my-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/the-secret-under-my-desk","title":{"rendered":"The secret under my desk…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a nifty idea that I can recommend for writers.<\/p>\n

Under my desk there’s a suspended box\u00a0(compartment) made up by my carpenter with the following dimensions: 30cm x 30cm.\u00a0It’s 20cm deep and houses the reference books I work with most. It keeps them handy, yet out of sight.<\/p>\n

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There’s the Concise Oxford dictionary and\u00a0the HAT\u00a0Afrikaans-English dictionary. Their spines are reinforced with duct-tape.\u00a0Roget’s Thesaurus,\u00a0Cassell’s New French and Latin compact dictionaries are also ensconced there.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m old-school and prefer physical referencing\u00a0to the use of software. There’s something delightful about the activity of riffling pages and poring over inked print that adds nicely to the creative mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a nifty idea that I can recommend for writers. Under my desk there’s a suspended box\u00a0(compartment) made up by my carpenter with the following dimensions: 30cm x 30cm.\u00a0It’s 20cm deep and houses the reference books I work with most. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}