{"id":441,"date":"2005-03-02T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T23:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=441"},"modified":"2005-03-07T23:49:26","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T04:49:26","slug":"why-do-you-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/03\/why-do-you-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do YOU Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postcards from Hell’s Kitchen: Why Do YOU Blog?<\/a><\/p>\n

My dear mad devil is asking why people blog – why not head on over<\/a> and answer? <\/p>\n

Here was my comment:<\/p>\n

I blog for multiple reasons, and perhaps that’s why mine is a bit eclectic. I blog to record questions and comments about my ExJWS information, hoping that some of these and my responses to them might be read by people who are seeking such information. I blog on political matters (although it may be somewhat dangerous to do so as time goes on) because I am truly saddened and furious about the situation in the USA – a combined emotion I haven’t experienced before – and I feel the need to document those things I feel, and events\/actions on the net so that I will at least have some sort of personal history – again, others may occasionally find value. Then, just the odd rumination, poem, observation – about my son, life, career, philosophy, and so on – that’s for fun. I have found that the blog is a kind of easy discipline to get me geared up and ready for my more substantial offline writing. There is a kind of salve to loneliness in it perhaps, like a journal – or a prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postcards from Hell’s Kitchen: Why Do YOU Blog? My dear mad devil is asking why people blog – why not head on over and answer? Here was my comment: I blog for multiple reasons, and perhaps that’s why mine is a bit eclectic. I blog to record questions and comments about my ExJWS information, hoping that some of these and my responses to them might be read by people who are seeking such information. I blog on political matters (although…<\/p>\n

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