{"id":1359,"date":"2010-06-01T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:07:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:07:20","slug":"why-do-i-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therhok.com\/\">Real Housewives of Oklahoma<\/a>&#8216;s Monday meme theme is Why Do I Blog?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4629510385\/\" title=\"20100522_41 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/4629510385_7ec19e7b64-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100522_41\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had always been interested in the technical side of blogging but I had no idea what I would say. Then I discovered Baloney of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsbaloney.com\/\">That&#8217;s Baloney<\/a>. (Miss Priss is her handle with RHOK.) She was already an acquaintance (who has since become a friend) she told stories with her blog and photographs and is very funny and scary smart and even today if I only have the chance to read one blog in a day, its hers I read.<\/p>\n<p>So I started writing and posting photographs and slowly I &#8220;met&#8221; other bloggers who were very nice, helpful, and encouraging. Now I am acquainted with a very broad range of people from both here in Tulsa and all over the globe. I have met several local bloggers and find that rewarding. I hope to meet more in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I love blogging because it allows me to tell my story and also find out about other people and their stories. I think that blogging is a big worldwide conversation and I get to participate in it.<\/p>\n<p>It is really as simple as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Housewives of Oklahoma&#8216;s Monday meme theme is Why Do I Blog? I had always been interested in the technical side of blogging but I had no idea what I would say. Then I discovered Baloney of That&#8217;s Baloney. (Miss Priss is her handle with RHOK.) She was already an acquaintance (who has since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}