{"id":29,"date":"2004-09-19T14:48:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2004\/09\/19\/why-a-blog-you-geek\/"},"modified":"2004-09-19T14:48:35","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T14:48:35","slug":"why-a-blog-you-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Why a Blog, you Geek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve read this (and in a perfect world I would have posted this first or something), you&#8217;re wondering &#8220;Elaine, your life revolves around two dogs, a D&amp;D-playing husband and the tragedy of having to clean your own house. Why should I care?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I started this blog after one of my friends from high school days suggested I start one. I think she doesn&#8217;t realize how technologically-ignorant I am. I was cutting edge with my use of the &#8216;net back in the day but now I&#8217;m pretty behind. To be perfectly honest, I think my life is pretty dull and it&#8217;s cool if you read a bit and surf on past to view the next &#8216;blog. I am hoping to use this space to sort out some things in my mind and hey, if someone reads it and gives some handy advice, that&#8217;s excellent. And if no one ever reads it, that&#8217;s fine with me.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s a way to incorporate a &#8220;Now listening to&#8221; button for my blog. In any event, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s playing on my Windows Media Player (I&#8217;ve got it sorted all songs, A-Z. I have 3 versions of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s song &#8220;A Singer Must Die&#8221; so it&#8217;s pretty trippy to hear them all in a row): Currently listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/launch.yahoo.com\/song\/?songID=254989\">Eagles &#8211; Too Many Hands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to go pick stuff up off the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve read this (and in a perfect world I would have posted this first or something), you&#8217;re wondering &#8220;Elaine, your life revolves around two dogs, a D&amp;D-playing husband and the tragedy of having to clean your own house. Why should I care?&#8221; Well, I started this blog after one of my friends from high&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-really-deep-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}