{"id":382,"date":"2004-10-18T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=382"},"modified":"2004-10-18T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2004-10-17T22:23:11","slug":"why-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Why blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking, as many new bloggers seem to, about why people blog, as I mentioned briefly yesterday. I haven&#8217;t got around to formulating my own views (perhaps I don&#8217;t have one), instead I&#8217;ve been reading some others. Most discussions aren&#8217;t very satisfying, but here&#8217;re a few that are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osmond-riba.org\/lis\/rambles2.htm\">Riba Rambles:`MORE Musings of a Mental Magpie<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frassle.net\/Directory\/item?id=172154\">Jennifer&#8217;s weblog<\/a>, which turns into a discussion on blogs versus wikis<\/p>\n<p>Another reason for me is to keep in shape. I used to write a lot, from late evening to sunrise, long manic ecstatic sessions exploring all sorts of aspects of myself. Since I have a child and an &#8216;ordinary&#8217; job, that&#8217;s been difficult, though just how ordinary is a 3-day working week, and a 4-day weekend?. The 4-day weekend started about a month ago, so it&#8217;s time for new things, and reconnecting with old. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking, as many new bloggers seem to, about why people blog, as I mentioned briefly yesterday. I haven&#8217;t got around to formulating my own views (perhaps I don&#8217;t have one), instead I&#8217;ve been reading some others. Most discussions aren&#8217;t very satisfying, but here&#8217;re a few that are: Riba Rambles:`MORE Musings of a Mental&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=382\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}