{"id":42,"date":"2004-09-29T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=42"},"modified":"2004-09-29T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T18:28:39","slug":"why-blog-first-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/why-blog-first-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Blog? (First attempt.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Why blog?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an easy way to write down one&#8217;s thoughts in a more focused way than casual conversation permits. Blogs also have more &#8220;voice&#8221; than more formal writing, though that doesn&#8217;t mean they should degenerate into rants (though they can and do).  If you rant, you lose your voice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why write down our thoughts?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because we want to know what&#8217;s on each other&#8217;s minds. We can share this in conversation, but see above. We can share it in any number of ways. Blogs are one. Right now, they&#8217;re a particularly interesting one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why do we want to know what&#8217;s on each other&#8217;s minds?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because we should know and enjoy as much of the full personhood of the people we work with as possible. This makes our collaboration richer, more interesting, and more rewarding.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whom do we work with?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why blog? It&#8217;s an easy way to write down one&#8217;s thoughts in a more focused way than casual conversation permits. Blogs also have more &#8220;voice&#8221; than more formal writing, though that doesn&#8217;t mean they should degenerate into rants (though they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/why-blog-first-attempt\/\">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":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}