{"id":4617,"date":"2007-03-28T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2007-03-28T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T16:03:00","slug":"why-do-i-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=4617","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">One day in late December 2005, way out of the blue, I heard from Jennifer O., who invited me to have a look at her site. I thought it was very cool indeed, so I began to start blogging myself.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">In the beginning stages, I was not sure it would be something that I would keep up with. I\u2019ve done some journaling in the past. I kept a diary for maybe up to 6 months at time but I have no idea where those diaries are anymore, perhaps in the trash. As the days progressed, long lost friends were finding me and I was discovering them along the way. Even though the miles separate us, I feel connected once again and that\u2019s what it\u2019s about. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Nowadays, blog journaling is first class, enriched with quite a few perks. There\u2019s so many pictures right here to dredge up, and a number of details that I would never dream of putting in a diary. And think of all the paper I\u2019m saving too! And I can\u2019t misplace it either, no matter where I go it will always be right here, and that\u2019s so comforting.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">In the future, I\u2019ll consider this my valuable keepsake with so many wonderful memories tucked away. I have to think I\u2019ll enjoy this passage even more in the years to come. I\u2019m so thankful I started this journey and trust I\u2019ll never lose site of the old friendships that have been rekindled once again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day in late December 2005, way out of the blue, I heard from Jennifer O., who invited me to have a look at her site. I thought it was very cool indeed, so I began to start blogging myself. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=4617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xHQP-1ct","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}