{"id":337,"date":"2016-01-17T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2016-01-17T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T19:48:04","slug":"the-blogger-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"The Blogger Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over two weeks since I wrote a blog post. There are a number of reasons but they all sound more like excuses than valid reasons to me. Rather than be hard on myself, I have decided to try an experiment. I am going to start mixing short posts with the longer, essay length posts. The idea behind this is, if I start writing a short post, it might grow into a longer one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to try to post more than just one post a day. This should be easier given that I am giving myself permission to make short posts. I hope this makes this blog easier to read.<\/p>\n<p>I ought to mention that this idea arose from a conversation that I had with my friend Bob. His advice was to open the editor and type &#8220;I have nothing to say.&#8221; Then, he reasoned, I would sit there and say to myself, &#8220;I can&#8217;t post that!&#8221; and come up with something better than that to say. I am doing that very thing but I&#8217;m skipping the first step. I&#8217;m lazy that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over two weeks since I wrote a blog post. There are a number of reasons but they all sound more like excuses than valid reasons to me. Rather than be hard on myself, I have decided to try an experiment. I am going to start mixing short posts with the longer, essay &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Blogger Experiments&#8221;<\/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":[5],"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\/337"}],"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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}