{"id":1190,"date":"2004-06-28T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1190.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"corollary-to-blogging-fundamentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/06\/28\/corollary-to-blogging-fundamentals\/","title":{"rendered":"Corollary to blogging fundamentals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2004\/06\/25\/questioning_blogging_fundamentals\/\">why <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> blogging<\/a>; why are <em>you<\/em> here?  If you don&#8217;t know me from real life, or from an online community I&#8217;ve hung out in, why are you reading this?  I&#8217;m not a guru or a celebrity.  If you didn&#8217;t just end up here via a search engine, why are you interested in what I have to say?<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m complaining, mind.  I&#8217;m just curious.  Because I do the same thing.  I follow the blogs of a number of people I have never met, but who just seem like interesting people.  Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodge.com\/\">Woodge<\/a>, for example.  I&#8217;ve never met him, and all I know about him is what I&#8217;ve read on his site.  I know he has a wee boy about the same age as Alex, and I know he likes some of the same films I do.  I enjoy reading his random thoughts, and I smile in parental solidarity when he talks about his kid.   Would we have anything to talk about if we got together over a couple of beers?  I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/\">Rands<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.96db.com\/\">Keith Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fragment.nl\/\">Frank Schaap<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsen.no\/anders\/blog\/\">Anders Jacobsen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unspun.us\/\">Rick Horowitz<\/a>, and a handful of other regular suspects.  Okay, so I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2003\/10\/14\/meeting_a_fellow_blogger\/\">met Frank<\/a>, but essentially I&#8217;m dipping into the lives of a bunch of complete strangers.  For all that I dislike reality TV shows, I sure seem more than happy to partake of the phenomenon over the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind why I&#8217;m blogging; why are you here? If you don&#8217;t know me from real life, or from an online community I&#8217;ve hung out in, why are you reading this? I&#8217;m not a guru or a celebrity. If you didn&#8217;t just end up here via a search engine, why are you interested in what &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/06\/28\/corollary-to-blogging-fundamentals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corollary to blogging fundamentals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}