{"id":1742,"date":"2018-09-23T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2018-09-23T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:56:24","slug":"long-time-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Long Time Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading John Scalzi’s blog, Whatever<\/a>, recently. This is probably because I read his\u00a0book, Don’t Live for Your Obituary<\/a>, which is a collection of his blog\u00a0posts. I liked what he had to say. And I found that I liked the tone of his blog as it was online, with no editing for publication. There are pictures of sunsets. There\u00a0are pictures of cats. Who doesn’t like pictures of cats? There are\u00a0philosophical essays, comments on topics in the news and popular culture, and guest blogs\u00a0from fellow writers.<\/p>\n

I like that he has the gumption to say what he thinks and the humility
\nto realize that it is only his opinion. I like that he shares his
\nplatform with other writers that don’t have quite the online following that
\nhe has. I like that he shares the prepublication and Advanced Reading
\nCopies that he gets sent with readers of his blog.<\/p>\n

I also like his fiction. I’ve read Old Man’s War<\/a> and listened to the
\naudio book of Red Shirts<\/a>. He is a good writer. I intend to read more of
\nhis work. I hope to become a writer of the same sort as he is. At sixty three, I am\u00a0getting a rather late start. But we must all have dreams to which we
\naspire.<\/p>\n

Reading his blog has made me realize that one thing I could do to
\nspeed my journey to becoming a working author is to give my blog the
\nattention it deserves. I may not have many readers. In fact, at this
\npoint I have none. But if I write, someone will read it.<\/p>\n

In the intervening months since I last wrote on my blog, Facebook has
\nimplemented a policy prohibiting automatic cross posting by third
\nparty apps. That means that I have to manually post a link to my blog
\nposts when I post them. It seems like that should be easy to do. I’ll
\nlet you know how it goes.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how often I’ll post to my blog. I don’t intend to let it
\ngo quite this long again. We’ll just have to see what
\nhappens. Whatever happens, I appreciate all that read my blog. I will
\ntry to make it worth your while.<\/p>\n

\n

Sweet dreams, don\u2019t forget to tell the ones you love that you love\u00a0them, and most important of all, be kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading John Scalzi’s blog, Whatever, recently. This is probably because I read his\u00a0book, Don’t Live for Your Obituary, which is a collection of his blog\u00a0posts. I liked what he had to say. And I found that I liked the tone of his blog as it was online, with no editing for publication. There … Continue reading “Long Time Coming”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}