{"id":735,"date":"2011-12-20T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2011-12-20T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:27:16","slug":"known-unknowns-4-guest-post-2-joe-randazzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/known-unknowns-4-guest-post-2-joe-randazzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Known Unknowns #4, Guest Post #2: Joe Randazzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton735\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fknown-unknowns-4-guest-post-2-joe-randazzo%2F&amp;text=Known%20Unknowns%20%234%2C%20Guest%20Post%20%232%3A%20Joe%20Randazzo&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fknown-unknowns-4-guest-post-2-joe-randazzo%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/known-unknowns-4-guest-post-2-joe-randazzo\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><em>Hey! Hi! You may remember &#8212; this was waaaaaay back on Friday &#8212; I posted a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/known-unknowns-4-is-it-done-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a>\u00a0about knowing when things are done. In that piece, I mentioned that I was going to be cajoling people from other creative avenues (Comedy Street, Television Parkway, etc.) to lend their perspectives on done-ness. Incredibly enough, it worked, and now I&#8217;ll be posting these all week, one per day, in addition to my regular Tuesday and Friday pieces. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Joe Randazzo, Editor of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\" target=\"_blank\">Onion<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s always such a battle to summon the energy needed to focus long enough to write something, that I&#8217;m generally overly eager for it to be finished. In fact, I don&#8217;t think I can actually consider something\u00a0<em>done<\/em>\u00a0until I&#8217;ve triggered several false alarms declaring it so\u2014otherwise, I will refuse to go back and read what I&#8217;ve written, and I\u00a0<em>have\u00a0<\/em>to read it to know that it is, clearly, far from finished. Then I will revise, prematurely call it finished, and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s similar with my standup, except in that case I have to go so far as to perform it in public without rehearsing to know if something is ready to perform in public.<\/p>\n<p>I think when I&#8217;m writing, my focus is so intense and tenuous that I can&#8217;t bear the thought of it not being any good, so the only way I can ever keep at work on something is to take a leap of faith, every single time, that it is at least not laughable. In the end, though, I&#8217;m not capable of calling anything finished until the deadline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Randazzo lives in Greenpoint with his wife and son. He is currently at work on a million different things. Who has the time for a bio anymore?!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton735\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fknown-unknowns-4-guest-post-2-joe-randazzo%2F&amp;text=Known%20Unknowns%20%234%2C%20Guest%20Post%20%232%3A%20Joe%20Randazzo&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fknown-unknowns-4-guest-post-2-joe-randazzo%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>Joe Randazzo, standup comedian and editor of the Onion, on his version of done-ness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-is-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}