{"id":1714,"date":"2011-02-23T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2011-02-23T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:29:16","slug":"what-is-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/1714\/what-is-blogging","title":{"rendered":"What Is Blogging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/danielpunkass\/status\/40433844356251648\">comment on Twitter<\/a> about wanting to commission a good entry-level web site for aspiring bloggers, Ian Beck experiments with <a href=\"http:\/\/beckism.com\/2011\/02\/what-is-blogging\/\">nailing down exactly<\/a> what blogging is. Obviously, it&#8217;s many, many, things. Like chess, you can teach the ground rules to somebody, who then has a practically limitless number of choices about how they deploy with those rules.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Ian&#8217;s remarks are inspiring, and may encourage you to blog more even if you <em>already know<\/em> what blogging is. I particularly like the simplicity of:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Blogging is sharing something you have created online. And then doing it again tomorrow (or next week, or next month, or next year). And again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my comment on Twitter about wanting to commission a good entry-level web site for aspiring bloggers, Ian Beck experiments with nailing down exactly what blogging is. Obviously, it&#8217;s many, many, things. Like chess, you can teach the ground rules to somebody, who then has a practically limitless number of choices about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}