{"id":534,"date":"2013-04-12T19:08:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/?p=534"},"modified":"2013-04-12T19:08:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:08:51","slug":"on-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/2013\/04\/on-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"On blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moley.\u00a0 Blogging is a lot of work.\u00a0 As I noted in my <a title=\"Just Do It (intro)\" href=\"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/2013\/02\/just-do-it-intro\/\">intro post<\/a>, I have a <a title=\"Future Topics\" href=\"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/future-topics\/\">near-endless supply<\/a> of opinionated rants about many topics.\u00a0 How hard could it be to just type one up every few days?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->My objectives were threefold: (1) distill my opinions into written words for future reference, (2) reach a broader audience so as to influence more people&#8217;s thinking, and (3) practice writing, particularly persuasive writing.<\/p>\n<p>Having now published 18 substantive articles over the course of two-and-a-half months, I conclude that writing &#8211; at least at the level of thought and research that I&#8217;m putting in &#8211; is exhausting.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s probably an interesting trade-off between currency and polish with respect to content.\u00a0 Is it better to have timely articles frequently, or well researched, painstakingly considered articles less often?<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;ve enjoyed it and I&#8217;ve got a lot more to say.\u00a0 Practice makes perfect, they say, so onward I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moley.\u00a0 Blogging is a lot of work.\u00a0 As I noted in my intro post, I have a near-endless supply of opinionated rants about many topics.\u00a0 How hard could it be to just type one up every few days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-blogging","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}