{"id":542,"date":"2002-05-11T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2002-05-11T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/11\/why-blog\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:38:19","slug":"why-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/11\/why-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16194,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/peachzeenie.blogspot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some days I sit back and wonder just why I do this. My site doesn&#8217;t get a whole lot of traffic &#8212; primarily just my folks and a few friends who stop by from time to time when they remember. And, admittedly, much of what I write probably wouldn&#8217;t be of any real interest to the world in general. Bits and pieces of my life, what I&#8217;m doing, what&#8217;s going on. Heck, I don&#8217;t even get personal enough most of the time to make for any real good drama!<\/p>\n<p>I found the following quote over on <a href=\"http:\/\/peachzeenie.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Peachzeenie\">Peach&#8217;s site<\/a> after she left a comment to one of my posts, and it seemed to sum up fairly accurately why I keep banging away at this &#8212; because, whether or not it&#8217;s seen all that often&#8230;it&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I am very pleased with my (o.k. and yours too) blogger. I feel like I have fallen down the rabbit hole; just falling and falling in a blissful state, sans the drugs. I love IT! It is peering through my own looking glass at my own ego and my written word. Whether you are an amatuer or a professional; whether you are an exquisite artiste or you stink, it makes no difference. Most people who create at some time or another, have a strong sense of who they are in the images they create. Mediocrity is the scare word for us. Your word or my word, we all checked off &#8216;public&#8217; for a reason. We would like to be read and responded to.<\/p>\n<p>  Sometimes, though, I feel that I shouldn&#8217;t be &#8216;published&#8217; unless I am very, very good. And then again, who cares? It&#8217;s my Journal and if you want to read it, be my guest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I sit back and wonder just why I do this. My site doesn&#8217;t get a whole lot of traffic &#8212; primarily just my folks and a few friends who stop by from time to time when they remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043],"tags":[599],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}