{"id":2220,"date":"2008-11-15T23:42:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T07:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2008-11-15T23:42:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T07:42:58","slug":"so-what-if-my-blog-is-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2220","title":{"rendered":"So what if my blog is about me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been accused (by the HMFIC at the gym, who doesn&#8217;t seem to get it) that my blog is self indulgent crap. I&#8217;m afraid that he&#8217;s forgotten that that&#8217;s the definition of blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>blog (n), \\\u00cb\u02c6bl\u00c8\u00afg, \u00cb\u02c6bl\u00c3\u00a4g\\<br \/>\nDefinition: self-indulgent crap; an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See? And what else would I write about? Even if I was making $1,000,000 per episode of <b>Friends<\/b> like Jennifer Aniston, I&#8217;d probably still write about myself. Hell, she can&#8217;t seem to get enough of herself so why should I be any different? Of course I might pay someone else to do it, but how would you know? This may actually be outsourced to someone in a some obscure country, say Vanuatu. Perhaps they have apples there.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re tired of reading about how everything seems to be going in the toilet for me lately, or how apples seem to be causing me great intestinal distress, I can think of better things to be doing than reading my blog. Playing Tumblebugs would be my choice on the computer, if it wasn&#8217;t broken on Leopard. Or reading a mystery. I have a stack that I still have to finish. Or maybe even something non-computer-related. I&#8217;d tell you that was a bad idea. No computers means no intarweb. No intarweb means no network. No network means no job for me. That would be bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been accused (by the HMFIC at the gym, who doesn&#8217;t seem to get it) that my blog is self indulgent crap. I&#8217;m afraid that he&#8217;s forgotten that that&#8217;s the definition of blog: blog (n), \\\u00cb\u02c6bl\u00c8\u00afg, \u00cb\u02c6bl\u00c3\u00a4g\\ Definition: self-indulgent crap; an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log See? And what else would I write about? Even if I was making $1,000,000 per episode of Friends like Jennifer Aniston, I&#8217;d probably still write about myself. Hell, she can&#8217;t seem to get enough of herself so why should I be any different? Of course I might pay someone else &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So what if my blog is about me?<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}