
{"id":534,"date":"2006-04-11T08:32:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2006-04-11T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T15:32:53","slug":"breathing-life-into-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2006\/04\/breathing-life-into-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathing life into this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell. Here we go:<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me this morning that whereas I think of personal blogging in terms akin to feeding a child or pet (&#8220;I need to feed my blog&#8221;), niche blogging of the kind that Ogle Earth aspires to invites a different comparison in me: one of inflation, but more specifically the inflation of a bagpipe, where a whole lot of effort needs to be expended to get momentum going, and then the focus needs to be on not accidentally letting your blog deflate by letting your interests wander.<\/p>\n<p>Do other people think of the act of blogging in terms of other metaphors? Running? Diving? Gardening? Eating? Grooming? Prancing?<\/p>\n<p>CPR?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell. Here we go: It occurred to me this morning that whereas I think of personal blogging in terms akin to feeding a child or pet (&#8220;I need to feed my blog&#8221;), niche blogging of the kind that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2006\/04\/breathing-life-into-this-blog\/\">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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-8C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}