{"id":7281,"date":"2011-04-05T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2011-04-05T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T04:01:09","slug":"why-do-i-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=7281","title":{"rendered":"why do I blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"item12494522\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">a friend (<a href=\"http:\/\/johnriveraurbanmusic.squarespace.com\/urban-thought\/2011\/3\/1\/why-do-people-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Rivera at Urban Thought<\/a>) recently asked the following:<br \/>\nWhy do YOU blog?\u00a0 Why do YOU write, if you do?\u00a0 I would like you to tell me, right here and now, what YOUR thoughts are.\u00a0 Because if nothing else, I&#8217;m forever curious. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">here&#8217;s my response:<br \/>\nI blog to keep myself from exploding&#8230;or imploding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">one of my greatest life challenges has always been my penchant for over sharing and on a blog I can do so with a supposed\/suggested anonymity &#8211; people who don&#8217;t know me can read and devise their opinions of who and what I am&#8230;sometimes they get weirded out when they actually meet me because they don\u2019t realize that the person I am on line is different than the one I am face to face\u2026I think when I blog\u2026I try not to concern myself with mundane things like correct punctuation or grammar\u2026I just \u201cvirtually\u201d open my mouth and blow it all out\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blogging has brought me friends and cost me friends\u2026cos sometimes I can say things virtually that I can\u2019t bring myself to say face to face\u2026.but mostly (as the VOD would say) I blog to keep my foufou valve from \u2018sploding!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a friend (John Rivera at Urban Thought) recently asked the following: Why do YOU blog?\u00a0 Why do YOU write, if you do?\u00a0 I would like you to tell me, right here and now, what YOUR thoughts are.\u00a0 Because if nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=7281\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7283,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}