{"id":4,"date":"2002-02-08T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2002-02-08T13:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2002-02-08T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2002-02-08T13:59:55","slug":"a-blog-for-the-rest-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2002\/02\/a-blog-for-the-rest-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blog for the Rest of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: Blogs are all over the place, and I didn&#8217;t think it necessary to have one, myself. I kind of thought that they were a bit pretentious, and the owners of blogs were pretty self-centered.<br \/>\nBut then, I realized that my WHOLE Web site was self-centered and pretentious. So I added this blog.<br \/>\nI can rationalize it, of course&#8212;I need to write more, since I haven&#8217;t added a poem or essay in over a year. If I could write just a little blog entry every day, it may grow into bigger things. All five of my loyal viewers would be happy to read what I have to say every couple of days or so. And hey! I&#8217;m interesting, dammit! Blah, blah, blah.<br \/>\nSo for now, it&#8217;s an experiment. If it gets my creative juices flowing (ugh, not a pretty picture), then it is worth the exercise is self-adsorption; otherwise, I&#8217;m just spitting against the wind.<br \/>\n&#8211;JR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: Blogs are all over the place, and I didn&#8217;t think it necessary to have one, myself. I kind of thought that they were a bit pretentious, and the owners of blogs were pretty self-centered. But then, I realized that my WHOLE Web site was self-centered and pretentious. So I added this blog. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metablogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}