{"id":4583,"date":"2026-03-26T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:05:57","slug":"this-just-got-a-lot-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/03\/this-just-got-a-lot-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just Got a Lot Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Working with text and changing file formats just got a lot easier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This little essay was written to be posted in a WordPress blog. I have been doing this blog writing bit for a few years and have over 1,800 posts. Seems like a lot, but a couple of posts a week for a few years and it adds up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From time to time, I take these blog posts and turn them into a more traditional book. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thoughts-Writing-Dwayne-Phillips-ebook\/dp\/B089QVVDTQ\/ref=sr_1_13?crid=1ZDVTE6BJ5S9N&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Xpekmt6UC38P0O0Tdeb1alpkNCFbdm-88gY6Unz3lS9dnIdd_X2j7--NVVApZte7i3p845_vYOhLwPtJGXsoamtU1hfT8dbBWGjKRsDMmCsP7biOuoFSblenrJawKIw76qspSajqiGZAenA5kg1XNkFl_7CM7uEe-9YiKwJ8IFwFPQz4siTYsHk9SDHP0R8A7xKloxnGzMK73HJX7NG4YWehjjam66xhlVSmHzzO8hg.F-vaGIEDWf_qYYL8FjFO0dA5AGp-dewzW7rE8qwEhgE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=dwayne+phillips&amp;qid=1773489291&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=dwayne+phillips%2Cstripbooks%2C101&amp;sr=1-13\">Here is one example on Amazon<\/a>. That used to be quite a chore: download an export from WordPress, run some Python code, convert to HTML, convert to MS Word, convert to some Amazon Kindle format, upload, and on and on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hard part for me was the Python code to pull the content from the XML into something that HTML could read. (Pardon my falling down into a pit of endless details.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, it all just got a lot easier (Pardon the collapse of grammar.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along comes these chattering bots and their continual improvement. Now I ask one of them (the leading ones all have this capability) to do what I want and viola&#8217;, out comes a system that does everything for me. Well, I do have to go the WordPress site and export the blog to an XML file. After that, bing, bang, bong, done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">General tip, if it involves text and file formats, ask a chattering bot to do the work. It is quite amazing but, then again, these chattering bots were built to work with text. Don&#8217;t ask them to solve basic math and logic problems, but text and file formats are a breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Working with text and changing file formats just got a lot easier. This little essay was written to be posted in a WordPress blog. I have been doing this blog writing bit for a few years and have over 1,800 posts. Seems like a lot, but a couple of posts a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,435,23,66,5],"tags":[470,438,145,186,128],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-context","category-programming","category-word","category-writing","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-context","tag-programming","tag-word","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}