{"id":395,"date":"2006-03-15T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2006-03-15T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T15:54:13","slug":"reports-of-my-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2006\/03\/reports-of-my-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a friend IM me the other day to ask “have you stopped blogging?” The answer is: not really.<\/p>\n

Between fallout from my uncle’s death at the end of the year and my own troubling but not serious health-related issues at the end of January, writing, hell, thinking, hasn’t really been a priority in the past couple of months.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to feel the need to get back to it though, but I’m also wondering if there’s any point, if my voice isn’t just more noise in a world that is already overloaded with superfluous crap.<\/p>\n

It also makes me wonder why I write here, exactly. This blog started, as I’m sure many a blog did, as a platform for venting the ridiculousness of my job<\/a> but, gradually, people (you know who you are!) have started reading me and leaving comments. So the question becomes, do I write for me, or do I write for you guys?<\/p>\n

Something for me to think about as the weather starts to warm here and I start to wake up from too many months’ slumber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a friend IM me the other day to ask “have you stopped blogging?” The answer is: not really. Between fallout from my uncle’s death at the end of the year and my own troubling but not serious health-related issues at the end of January, writing, hell, thinking, hasn’t really been a priority in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}